Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Kolnoa; Studies in Cinema and Television
Angaben zur Quelle:
1 (1998) 117-148
Keywords:
Spielberg, Steven,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
Abstract:
Employs Deleuze and Guattari's "nomadology" to discuss Spielberg's "Schindler's List". Nazi actions are interpreted as transforming the Jews into nomads, i.e. potential warriors, before destroying them. Schindler is credited with saving the lives of "his Jews" by turning them into "metallurgists" or semi-nomads, who gained immunity because they produced weapons of war, which were respected by the sedentary, half-nomadic soldiers of the Nazi state. Schindler is also described as frustrating the Nazi assault on the Jewish kinship system (the family). It is also claimed that the film suggests that post-Holocaust Jewish existence can be understood in nomadological terms.
Note:
A Hebrew version appeared in
,
"תיאוריה וביקורת" 18 (2001)
URL:
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