This anthology of essays on Steven Spielberg's 1993 film is a solid achievement. It is a repository of considerable critical insight and frequently passionate argument. Holocaust and Genocide Studies
An excellent collection; highly recommended for general readers and students at all levels. Choice
This collection of essays opens further the debate on how to represent the Holocaust as Holocaust representation and memory move into ever-greater areas of daily American and Jewish American culture. Tikkun
Schindlers List not only afforded director Steven Spielberg a cinematic vehicle loaded with Hollywood-hardware to create his master narrative about the Holocaust, the film also invited a renewed scholarly and intellectual discussion about racism, historical voyeurism and the limits of representation. This thought-provoking critical anthology tackles these issues and many others.
Yosefa Loshitzky, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Journalism at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of The Radical Faces of Godard and Bertolucci.
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction
1. Every Once in a While: Schindlers List and the Shaping of History Barbie Zelizer
2. Spielbergs Oskar: Hollywood Tries Evil Omer Bartov
3. The Cinema Animal Geoffrey Hartman
4. Schindlers List is not Shoah: Second Commandment, Popular Modernism and Public
Memory Miriam Hansen
5. Holocaust Others: Spielbergs Schindlers List versus Lanzmanns Shoah Yosefa
Loshitzky
6. But is it Good for the Jews? Spielbergs Schindler and the Aesthetics of Atrocity Sara R.
Horowitz
7. The Image Lingers: The Feminization of the Jew in Schindlers List Judith E. Doneson
8. Schindlers Discourse: America Discusses the Holocaust and its Mediation, from NBCs
Miniseries to Spielbergs Film Jeffrey A. Shandler
9. The Tale of the Good German: Reflections on the Israeli Reception of Schindlers lót