Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory

Contents

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Anne Frank, the Phenomenon 1 I. Mediating 1 From Diary to Book: Text, Object, Structure Jeffrey Shandler 25 2 Anne Frank from Page to Stage Edna Nahshon 59 3 Anne Frank’s Moving Images Leshu Torchin 93 II. Remembering 4 Hauntings of Anne Frank: Sitings in Germany Henri Lustiger Thaler and Wilfried Wiedemann 137 5 Teaching Anne Frank in the United States Ilana Abramovitch 160 6 Anne Frank as Icon, from Human Rights to Holocaust Denial Brigitte Sion 178 7 Anne Frank, a Guest at the Seder Liora Gubkin 193 Contents viii contents III. Imagining 8 Literary Afterlives of Anne Frank Sara R. Horowitz 215 9 Suturing In: Anne Frank as Conceptual Model for Visual Art Daniel Belasco 254 10 Sounds from the Secret Annex: Composing a Young Girl’s Thoughts Judah M. Cohen 265 IV. Contesting 11 Critical Thinking: Scholars Reread the Diary Sally Charnow 291 12 Anne Frank on Crank: Comic Anxieties Edward Portnoy 309 Epilogue: A Life of Its Own—The Anne Frank Tree Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 324 Notes 339 Musicography Judah M. Cohen 377 Videography Aviva Weintraub 397 Contributors 409 Index 413 ...