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First Films of the Holocaust tackles a little known but deeply important subject Soviet filmmakers, who were the first ones to visualize the mass murder of Jews and others on the Eastern front, the event we now call the Holocaust. In this important book, Jeremy Hicks shows how the filmmakers documented their horrible subject and then how the Soviet government used this frightening footage to galvanize a population. A fusion of film analysis and history, this book will be a must-have for anyone interested in filmic representations of the Holocaust. David Shneer, University of Colorado

<p> First Films of the Holocaust tackles a little known but deeply important subject--Soviet filmmakers, who were the first ones to visualize the mass murder of Jews and others on the Eastern front, the event we now call the Holocaust. In this important book, Jeremy Hicks shows how the filmmakers documented their horrible subject and then how the Soviet government used this frightening footage to galvanize a population. A fusion of film analysis and history, this book will be a must-have for anyone interested in filmic representations of the Holocaust. <br>--David Shneer, University of Colorado

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Jeremy Hicks is senior lecturer in the School of Languages, Linguistics, and Film at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Mikhail Zoshchenko and the Poetics of Skaz and Dziga Vertov: Defining Documentary Film.

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