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| Size | | Length: | 250 pages | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 16.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
Over the last decade, no film about the Holocaust has had greater impact than Spielberg's enormously popular Schindler's List. . . . Loshitsky concentrates entirely on the ways in which Spielberg's masterwork succeeds in addressing--or conspicuously fails to address--the political and artistic difficulties inherent in this challenging subject. Not all the essays are of equal value; a few are jargon-ridden rehashings of familiar themes. However, essays by Omar Bartov, Miriam Hansen, Geoffrey Hartman, Haim Bresheeth, and Sara Horowitz are especially informative, literate, and provocative. An excellent collection; highly recommended for general readers and students at all levels.
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Liebman
In one of [this] volume's strongest pieces, Omer Bartov takes Schindler's List to task for 'the positively repulsive kitsch of the last two scenes.' . . . Sara R. Horowitz offers a lively reading of the film as an essentially Christian narrative of individual sin and redemption. She shows, as does Judith E. Doneson, how the film is packed with anti-Semitic stereotypes. . . . In a fascinating piece, Haim Bresheeth gives an overview of the Israeli response to [the film] that delves into the contentious theoretical debates surrounding the representation of the Holocaust. Less rewarding are Barbie Zelizer's platitudinous defence of Schindler's pop-culture success as a justification in itself, . . . and Yosefa Loshitsky's jargon-ridden essay on Shoah and Schindler's List. . . . It must also be said that . . . the book teems with grammatically challenged sentences crying out for editorial assistance.
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Liebman
A collection of scholarly articles on Schindler's List could easily turn into a academic lynching party, with everyone taking the moral high ground against Spielberg's determined populism. But this anthology, based on a symposium, makes for remarkably gripping reading. The contributors wrestle with the film's undoubted virtues, whatever its shortcomings. Claude Lanzmann's Shoah runs throughout as a counterpoint, with its insistence that the Holocaust cannot be portrayed fictionally.
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Christie
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