Schindler's list is not Shoah: Second commandment, popular modernism, and public memory
TitleSchindler's list is not Shoah: Second commandment, popular modernism, and public memory
Author
Call number704.9499405318/0004
Object number05719H
Place of publicationNew Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
PublisherRutgers University Press
Year of publication
2000
Physical descriptionpp127-151
MaterialArticle
Series titleRutgers depth of field series
ISBN0813528933
NotesArticle from the book 'Visual culture and the Holocaust' pp127-151
Description
Tracks the critical and controversial reception of the film and the way in which visual Holocaust remembrance connects to a more general linkage with the cinmema, television and American intellectual life. Identifies three levels of public reception to 'Schindler's List' and connects them to broader issues concerning cinematic subjectivity, the question of representation and the problem of narrative