Cinema and the Shoah

<p>Cinema is memory. Films on the Holocaust, in particular, have turned into a paradigm of memory itself. From the standpoint of the dialectic of memory and forgetting, the exercise of memory through cinema becomes a grand cultural mediation that space where so many representations and history itself are negotiated. At the center of this paper is the range of meanings that films can convey in the public space. Within this context cinema has played a role in the construction of public and collective memory, while at the same time reflecting and<br />respecting the timing of collective grief-work.