JOJO RABBIT EXPANDS AMERICA’S COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF WORLD WAR II

Summary

This article analyzes Taiki Watiti’s 2019 film Jojo Rabbit through essays by film theorists James V. Wertsch, Peter Leham, and Susan Hunt to demonstrate how the film strays away from the typical media depictions of Jewish people and Nazis. In doing so, the film expands society’s collective memory of WWII.