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Word: holokitsch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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Usage:

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood On The Holocaust | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood On The Holocaust | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

Three new movies consider the Nazi extermination of European Jewry. Their ambitions are honorable, but can they escape the taint of "holokitsch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

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