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Encyclopedia > Anne Frank in popular culture

The following lists some references to the Jewish diarist Anne Frank in popular culture. Anne Frank Her handwriting, translated: This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. ...

  • Time magazine considered Anne Frank one of 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
  • 5535 Annefrank — an asteroid named after Anne Frank
  • Philip Roth — U.S. novelist whose novel The Ghost Writer (1979) imagines Anne Frank surviving World War II and living anonymously as a writer in the United States.
  • On their 1980 album Fig. 14, Boston, Massachusetts indie rock band Human Sexual Response included a song called Anne Frank Story, which relates the unusual emotional experience of viewing the Anne Frank House as a tourist.
  • Winona Ryder's character in the movie Mermaids (1990) is asked by Christina Ricci's character what she wishes for, to which she replies, 'I wish I'd known Anne Frank.'
  • The Bernard Kops play Dreams of Anne Frank (1993) re-imagines her concealment in Amsterdam, using elements of fantasy and song.
  • In response to hearing a born again Christian's insistence that Anne Frank's virtues alone would not gain her a place in Heaven, Ani DiFranco (whose name reminds one of Anne Frank anyway) wrote and performed Did Anne Frank Find Jesus?, a hidden track on her 1997 live album Living in Clip ('Did Jesus find Buddha? Let's all just find each other. I wanna find Anne Frank before I bite it.')
  • Neutral Milk Hotel — US indie rock band whose 1998 album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea was inspired by the lead singer Jeff Mangum's affection for Anne Frank. It includes the songs, Holland 1945 ('The only girl I ever loved/ Was born with roses in her eyes/ And then they buried her/ Alive, one evening 1945/ With just her sister at her side/ And only weeks before the guns all came and rained on everyone'), Oh Comely ('I know they buried her body with others/ Her sister and mother and five hundred families/ And would she remember me fifty years later/ I wish I could save her/ In some sort of time machine'), and "Ghost" ("She was born in a bottle rocket/1929")
  • A Punk rock band from Boulder, Colorado named themselves Anne Frank on Crank, which by their explanation suggests they are "disenfranchised, yet somehow empowered."
  • Marc Chagall — illustrated a limited edition of The Diary of Anne Frank.
  • Outkast — US hip hop band whose track So Fresh, So Clean from their album Stankonia, makes a knowing reference to Anne Frank('I love who you are/ I love who you ain't/ You're so Anne Frank/ Let's hit the attic and hide out for two weeks').
  • Anne Frank Conquers the Moon Nazis, a tongue-in-cheek webcomic by Bill Mudron, about a resurrected Anne Frank rebuilt cybernetically to defend the Earth from an extra-terrestrial Nazi assault, ran online until 2003. [1]
  • Geoff Ryman's novel 253 features an elderly Anne Frank as a passenger on the London Underground
  • In 2004 Robert Steadman composed a twenty-minute musical work for choir and string orchestra entitled Tehillim for Anne which commemorated Anne Frank's life with settings of three Psalms in Hebrew.
  • The comedy show Robot Chicken ran a tongue-in-cheek sketch depicting a preview for a teen film about Anne Frank. It referenced many teen film clichés (such as casting Hilary Duff as Anne, and having her dot the letter i in her diary with hearts) and included a teen pop song. It ended with the tagline "Nazis are so uncool".
  • The Animated show Family Guy had Peter discussing how his appetite had previously gotten him into trouble. The scene cuts to black and white footage of Anne Frank and family crouched in an attic, with the Nazis downstairs looking for them, only to hear a loud crunch. They look over, to find Peter loudly eating potato chips, thereby alerting the Nazis to their presence.
  • The city of Boise, Idaho erected an Anne Frank memorial in response to concerns about neo-Nazis making a home in northern Idaho cities such as Coeur d'Alene [2] [3]
  • In one episode of the 1990s TV show My So-Called Life they read The Diary of Anne Frank. Angela says how she thinks Anne Frank was lucky because she was trapped in a room all day for years with the guy she liked.
  • In one episode of Arrested Development, Michael suspects that "[his] son is hiding Anne in the attic". He voices this suspicion to his sister Lindsay, who replies "From who, the Nazis?"
  • In the film Clerks II, Randal Graves constantly says that Anne Frank is "the deaf, dumb, and blind girl" despite repeated statements by Dante Hicks that he is referring to Helen Keller.
  • In the animated film, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut, Ike Broflovski is hid in the attic by his brother Kyle Broflovski during the American/Canadian War. Ike was a Canadian child adopted by the Broflovskis.

Image File history File linksMetadata Asteroid_5535_Annefrank. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Asteroid_5535_Annefrank. ... Image of 5535 Annefrank taken by the Stardust space probe 5535 Annefrank is an inner main belt asteroid, and member of the Augusta family. ... An artists rendering of Stardust (NASA image) The Stardust capsule with cometary and interstellar samples landed at the U.S. Air Force Utah Test and Training Range at 10:10 UTC (15 January 2006) in the Bonneville Salt Flats. ... (Clockwise from upper left) Notable Time magazine covers from the dates May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Image of 5535 Annefrank taken by the Stardust space probe 5535 Annefrank is an inner main belt asteroid, and member of the Augusta family. ... Philip Roth Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey) is an American novelist. ... The Ghost Writer (1979, ISBN 0679748989) is a novel by Philip Roth. ... Combatants Allies: Soviet Union United Kingdom United States and others Axis Powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Franklin Roosevelt Joseph Stalin Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000,000 Total dead: 50,000,000 Military dead: 8,000... Nickname: City on a Hill, Beantown, The Hub of the Universe (The State House, according to Oliver Wendell Holmes, is the hub of the Solar System), Athens of America Location in Massachusetts Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas Menino (D) Area    - City 232. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... Human Sexual Response were a Boston, Massachussetts New Wave band that emerged in the late 1970s and continued through the early 1980s. ... The canal-side façade of the former Opekta building on the Prinsengracht in 2002. ... Winona Ryder is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. ... Mermaids is an 1986 novel written by author Patty Dann. ... Christina Ricci (born February 12, 1980) is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award-nominated American actress. ... Amsterdam Location Flag Country Netherlands Province North Holland Population 742,951(1 January 2005) Demonym Amsterdammer Coordinates Website www. ... Born again is a term used originally and mainly in Christianity, where it is associated with salvation, conversion and spiritual rebirth. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Christianity. ... Heaven is an afterlife concept found in many religions or spiritual philosophies. ... Ani DiFranco (IPA: É‘-ni) (born Angela Marie Difranco on September 23, 1970) is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter. ... Living in Clip is the first live album by singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco, released in 1997. ... Jesus (8–2 BC/BCE — 29–36 AD/CE),[1] also known as Jesus of Nazareth, is the central figure of Christianity. ... A stone image of the Buddha. ... Neutral Milk Hotel was an American indie rock band. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... In the Aeroplane Over the Sea was an album released in 1998 (see 1998 in music) by Neutral Milk Hotel, a member of the Elephant 6 Collective. ... Margot Frank, May 1942 Margot Betti Frank (February 16, 1926 – March 9, 1945) was the academically-gifted elder sister of Anne Frank, whose deportation order prompted the Frank family to go into hiding, and who perished in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. ... Edith Frank-Hollander Edith Frank-Holländer (January 16, 1900–January 6, 1945), was the mother of Anne Frank. ... Time travel is a concept that has long fascinated humanity—whether it is Merlin experiencing time backwards, or religious traditions like Mohammeds trip to Jerusalem and ascent to heaven, returning before a glass knocked over had spilt its contents. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Boulder (, Mountain Time Zone) is a city in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. ... Marc Chagall as photographed in 1941 by Carl Van Vechten. ... OutKast is an American hip hop duo based out of Atlanta, Georgia. ... Hip hop music (also referred to as rap or rap music) is a style of popular music which came into existence in roughly the mid 70s but became a large part of modern day pop culture in the late 80s. ... Stankonia is a hip hop album by OutKast, released by La Face records (a subcorporation of Arista, BMG) on October 31, 2000. ... An episode of Diesel Sweeties Webcomics, also known as online comics and web comics, are comics that are available on the Internet. ... Geoffrey Charles Ryman (born 1951) is a writer of science fiction, fantasy and slipstream fiction. ... 253, or Tube Theatre is a novel by Geoff Ryman, originally created as a website in 1996 ( http://www. ... The nickname the Tube comes from the circular tube-like tunnels through which the small-profile trains travel. ... Robert Steadman (born April 1, 1965) is a British composer and conductor of classical music who mostly works in a post-minimalist style but also writes lighter music, including musicals, and compositions for educational purposes. ... Tehillim for Anne is a 3-movement musical composition by British composer Robert Steadman (born 1965). ... Robot Chicken is an American stop motion animated television series created by Stoop!d Monkey and Sony Pictures Digital, currently airing as a part of Cartoon Networks Adult Swim lineup. ... The teen film (also called teen movie or teenpic) is a film genre in which the plot is based upon the special interests of teenagers, such as the coming of age, first love, rebellion, and conflict with parents. ... Hilary Erhard Duff[1] (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress and singer. ... Teen pop is a form of pop music that is light and dancey, made for and often by teenagers. ... Family Guy is an American animated comedy created by Seth MacFarlane for FOX in 1999. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Trees Motto: Energy Peril Success Location Coordinates , Government Country State County United States Idaho Ada Founded Incorporated 1863 1864 Mayor David H. Bieter Geographical characteristics Area     City 165. ... Map Political Statistics Founded 1878 Incorporated 1887 County Kootenai County Mayor Sandi Bloem Geographic Statistics Area  - Total  - Land  - Water 35. ... See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from 2000 and 2001. ... The young cast of My So-Called Life. ... A 1995 edition of The Diary of a Young Girl The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank was published in Dutch in 1947 (and in English in 1952), using extracts from the diary she kept while in hiding during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands. ... Arrested Development is a character-driven American comedy television series about a formerly wealthy, habitually dysfunctional family. ... Clerks II is the 2006 sequel to Kevin Smiths 1994 movie Clerks. ... Randal Graves is a fictional character from Clerks. ... Dante Hicks (played by Brian OHalloran) in the movie Dante Hicks is a fictional character in Kevin Smiths View Askewniverse, played by Brian OHalloran. ... Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was a deafblind American author, activist and lecturer. ... South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is a 1999 motion picture based on the cartoon television series of South Park. ... Ike Moisha Broflovski (born Peter Gints) is Kyles baby brother on the animated series South Park. ... Kyle Broflovski, a. ...

References

  1. ^ Excelsior Studios Retrieved March 17, 2006.
  2. ^ Idaho drafts Anne Frank to fight Neo-Nazi image Reuters, April 11, 2000. Retrieved March 17, 2006.
  3. ^ Idaho Human Rights Education CenterRetrieved March 17, 2006.


 
 

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