Description:
1. This book provides a new perspective and interpretation of Nazi comedy films that explores films where antisemitism is not overt, but instead present in the absence of Jewishness. It is a timely look at how prejudice and racism can manifest by absence in popular culture. German readers may find this book controversial, because it shows that the much loved, classic comedies they have assumed are innocent are tainted by Nazi antisemitism.
2. This is a work that further illuminates how and why challenging racism's most overt manifestations has not been enough to eliminate racism's institutional effects in today's culture.
3. This book has a broad appeal across a number of audiences where we have a strong presence as a press: Antisemitism Studies, Film & Media studies, Jewish Studies, and Holocaust studies. It is written by an up-and-coming scholar of German cinema.
Review Quotes:
"Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany offers an intriguing point of departure for future inquiries into the functions of coded antisemitism in mainstream Western culture today."--Ofer Ashkenazi- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Antisemitism Studies