Word: holokitsch
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...HOLOKITSCH. THAT IS ARTIST Art Spiegelmann's word for the banal and manipulative uses to which the Nazi Holocaust has been put in popular culture. Holokitsch reduces an egregious crime to the mechanics of cloying melodrama--dewy-eyed victims and sneering villains. Memory is debased; the uniqueness of each of 6 million lost souls is devalued...
...daredevil acts makes goodness seem almost routine, the norm, in a time when monsters ravaged Europe. But that is Blair's point. In war as in peace, Anne's friends showed a bravery they might well shrug off as simple human decency. This harrowing, inspiring film--an antidote to Holokitsch--is their testament. It alerts us that villainy is the rank soil in which heroism can flower...
...them in Enemies, a Love Story. Instead, characters are as reductive as in any old-time western. The good guys wear the Star of David; the bad guys wear swastikas. The real victim in these films is dramatic ambiguity, and the result is what critic Art Spiegelman has called "holokitsch...
Singer wrote a Domesday Book in which the blood is bathed in tears of conspiratorial laughter. Mazursky has made it into a movie that sidesteps holokitsch with the spry deftness of a Chagall peasant...
Three new movies consider the Nazi extermination of European Jewry. Their ambitions are honorable, but can they escape the taint of "holokitsch...
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