Language:
French
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Cahiers de Clio
Angaben zur Quelle:
117-118 (1994) 131-140
Keywords:
Spielberg, Steven,
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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Jews in motion pictures
Abstract:
Discusses Spielberg's film "Schindler's List" as a model of American spectacularity: all can be told in images and the focus is on the abnormal and the monstrous, even if the Holocaust was in fact the result of the banal, bureaucratic actions of ordinary people. States that the film does not speak about the Final Solution, but tells a sensational story within the context of the Holocaust. Spielberg, unlike Claude Lanzmann, chose not to tell things in an innovative manner but to simply reconstruct them, presenting images even of the inexpressible (e.g. the gas-chamber scene), admitting them into normality and therefore into oblivion.
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