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
PublicationAlbany : State University Press of New York, [2025]
Descriptionxx, 456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

Portion of title MS St. Louis refugee ship in history, film, and popular memory
SeriesSUNY 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 419-431) and index.
LCCN 2025003043
ISBN9798855803761
ISBN9798855803754 (hardcover)
ISBN(electronic book)