Description
Book SynopsisAs the first studio film to deal directly with the enormity of the Holocaust, "Schindler's List" attempts to provide the popular imagination with a narrative about the Holocaust. This work discusses a variety of issues including the representation of history by cinema and popular culture, and the right to dramatize the 'unrepresentable'.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction
1. Every Once in a While: Schindler's List and the Shaping of History Barbie Zelizer
2. Spielberg's Oskar: Hollywood Tries Evil Omer Bartov
3. The Cinema Animal Geoffrey Hartman
4. Schindler's List is not Shoah: Second Commandment, Popular Modernism and Public
Memory Miriam Hansen
5. Holocaust Others: Spielberg's Schindler's List versus Lanzmann's Shoah Yosefa
Loshitzky
6. But is it Good for the Jews? Spielberg's Schindler and the Aesthetics of Atrocity Sara R.
Horowitz
7. The Image Lingers: The Feminization of the Jew in Schindler's List Judith E. Doneson
8. Schindler's Discourse: America Discusses the Holocaust and its Mediation, from NBC's
Miniseries to Spielberg's Film Jeffrey A. Shandler
9. The Tale of the Good German: Reflections on the Israeli Reception of Schindler's List
Liliane Weissberg
10. The Great Taboo Broken: Reflections on the Israeli Reception of Schindler's List
Haim Bresheeth
11. Between Obsession and Amnesia: Reflections on the French Reception of Schindler's
List Natasha Lehrer
12. The Uncertain Certainty of Schindler's List Bryan Cheyette
