Anne Frank unbound : media, imagination, memory / edited by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jeffrey Shandler.

"This volume of essays was developed from ... a colloquium convened in 2005 by the Working Group on Jews, Media, and Religion of the Center for Religion and Media at New York University"--Intr.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From Diary to Book: Text, Object, Structure 25 (34) Jeffrey Shandler 2 Anne Frank from Page to Stage 59 (34) Edna Nahshon 3 Anne Frank's Moving Images 93 (44) Leshu Torchin -- Hauntings of Anne Frank: Sitings in Germany 137 (23) Henri Lustiger Thaler Wilfried Wiedemann 5 Teaching Anne Frank in the United States 160 (18) Ilana Abramovitch 6 Anne Frank as Icon, from Human Rights to Holocaust Denial 178 (15) Brigitte Sion 7 Anne Frank, a Guest at the Seder 193 (22) Liora Gubkin -- Literary Afterlives of Anne Frank 215 (39) Sara R. Horowitz 9 Suturing In: Anne Frank as Conceptual Model for Visual Art 254 (11) Daniel Belasco 10 Sounds from the Secret Annex: Composing a Young Girl's Thoughts 265 (26) Judah M. Cohen -- Critical Thinking: Scholars Reread the Diary 291 (18) Sally Charnow 12 Anne Frank on Crank: Comic Anxieties 309 (15) Edward Portnoy Epilogue: A Life of Its Own -- The Anne Frank Tree 324 (15) Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

"As millions of people around the world who have read her diary attest, Anne Frank, the most familiar victim of the Holocaust, has a remarkable place in contemporary memory. Anne Frank Unbound looks beyond this young girl's words at the numerous ways people have engaged her life and writing. Apart from officially sanctioned works and organizations, there exists a prodigious amount of cultural production, which encompasses literature, art, music, film, television, blogs, pedagogy, scholarship, religious ritual, and comedy. Created by both artists and amateurs, these responses to Anne Frank range from veneration to irreverence. Although at times they challenge conventional perceptions of her significance, these works testify to the power of Anne Frank, the writer, and Anne Frank, the cultural phenomenon, as people worldwide forge their own connections with the diary and its author."--Provided by publisher.