On shoreless sea : the MS St. Louis refugee ship in history, film, and popular memory / Roy Grundmann.
| Author/creator | Grundmann, Roy, 1963- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Albany : State University Press of New York, [2025] |
| Description | xx, 456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | MS St. Louis refugee ship in history, film, and popular memory |
| Series | SUNY series : Horizons of cinema SUNY series, horizons of cinema. ^A707282 |
| Contents | Jews during the Third Reich : between flight and entrapment -- Neocolonialism, biopolitics, and the Jewish migrant business : HAPAG and MS St Louis -- Voyage 98 : the unfolding of a fateful odyssey -- The St. Louis passengers and the press coverage of Voyage 98 -- On shoreless sea : the St. Louis voyage, the state of exception, and the colonial turn in Holocaust studies -- The St. Louis in popular memory -- "Voyage of the Damned" on the big screen -- Germany revisits the St. Louis voyage : "Die Ungewollten - Die Irrfahrt der St. Louis" [The Unwanted - The St. Louis Odyssey] -- The St. Louis voyage and grassroots historical revisionism : Robert M. Krakow's independent film "Complicit" -- The St. Louis in multidirectional memory -- Epilogue : "With whose blood were my eyes crafted?" Philipp Scheffner and Merle Kröger's "Havarie" (2016), the mediterranean migrant crisis, and the St. Louis voyage. |
| Abstract | "Combines new archival research with innovative theory to reassess the ship's dramatic voyage and analyze its representation in a broad range of texts, films, and artifacts of popular memory"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-431) and index. |
| LCCN | 2025003043 |
| ISBN | 9798855803761 |
| ISBN | 9798855803754 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |