The article attempts to make a distinction between genocide films and holocaust films. I don't know if I agree that you can separate the two types of films. The article seems to make a distinguish between the two based on race, which ties into another point that the article makes. Some of the most popular genocide films, like Schindler's List, choose not to focus on the victims of the genocides themselves, but instead make their hero's people that "white viewers" can relate too. I think that whenever you turn something into an industry, like the article suggests genocide films have become, its impossible to truly be faithful to the source material without some commercial biases slipping in.
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