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film festivals. with a third citing the Toronto International Film Festival specifically.
These alternative venues, within festive contexts, are outside ofthe nonn ofmainstream.
Hollywood distribution. This in tum., reflects another attribute ofJewishness.
In addition to the industrialized or independent production ofthese films.
Jewishness is emergent when the films are photographed on-location, where the events
being depicted actually occurred, thereby linking this contextual attribute with the
verisimilitude nOled above. Also, Jewishness is contextually emergent when the films are
based on "Jewish" source material (like Jewish personal experience narratives or Jewish
authors).
For example. with Shoah. by filming on location at the death camp siles. Lanz­
mann's aim at verisimilitude reaches into the contextual as well. These death sites and
groves the Nazis planted to cover up their atrocities are not just discussed but shown
visually. Even within the context ofa cinematically industrial country like France.
Lanzmann produced Shoah independemly and likewise did the festival circuit. before its
brief run at cinemas like the Carlelon in Toronto in 1985·86. Due [0 its immense length.
the film was commercially screened in two parts. taking up [wo different cinema screens.
and requiring viewers to make a return trip to see the whole movie. This film-going
context is not Jewish. per se. but it is non-mainstream.
JEWISH TAXONOMY (GENRE):
The vernacular taxonomies that became emergent., although less important than
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