DkIT lecturer launches book on holocaust films
DkIT Lecturer Dr. Ingrid Lewis launched a new book entitled ‘Women in European Holocaust Films: Perpetrators, Victims and Resisters’ The book was launched recently to critical acclaim, and was unveiled at an official ceremony by DkIT Creative Arts Research Centre on the Dundalk campus.
Lecturer in the Department of Creative Media, Arts and Music, the book considers how women’s experiences have been treated in films dealing with Nazi persecution.
Focusing on fiction films made in Europe between 1945 and the present, the study explores dominant discourses on and cinematic representation of women as perpetrators, victims and resisters.
Dr. Lewis contends that European Holocaust Cinema underwent a rich and complex trajectory of change with regard to the representation of women.
The official launch was formally opened by the President of DkIT, Dr. Michael Mulvey, who noted Dr. Lewis’ academic achievements to date, her Romanian heritage and her positive contribution to the Institute.
Noting that the launch of a book is one of the highest achievements in academia, event host Dr. Gerard Bob McKiernan, Head of the School of Informatics and Creative Arts, highlighted the positive reception amongst aca- demics for Dr. Lewis’ book, reading commendations from renowned scholars from Ireland, the US and the UK.
Dr. Ingrid Lewis spoke to the audience about her motivation for this research and the fascinating journey that led to the publication of this key book.
She also explained her theory of the ‘silenced gender paradigm’ in Holocaust historiography and filmic representation.