ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses that it is difficult to evaluate a historical film unless people understand the larger discourse out of which it arises becomes another reason for taking up the Holocaust. Suspicions about the possibility of representing the Holocaust fall with particular force on the motion picture, particularly the drama, and more particularly the popular Hollywood drama. The problem of representing the Holocaust can also be seen as the core problem of history. The Holocaust is like any other historical problem, a series of events created by humans and inflicted upon humans, which continue to haunt our culture, and which people continue to deal with in various discourses, scholarly and popular, including film. The chapter argues that to the larger discourse of the Holocaust, a field in which debates over its causes, complicities, and course are still bitterly contested.
