Word: holokitsch
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...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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