Schindler’s List Bibliography

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Schindler’s List Bibliography

1. Goodman, Nancy R. “Opening the Mind to Trauma Through Oscillations of Focus: Learning From the Film Schindler’s List: Nancy R. Goodman.” The Power of Witnessing. Routledge, 2012. 273-279.

The article is about the film ‘Schindler’s List’ by Steven Spielberg produced in the year 1993. It states that the film attracted a large audience especially people who had never seen a Holocaust film before, and this was the same around across the globe. As the newspapers appeared, the film obtained more popularity and acclaim resulting to the opening of dialogues. The film opened on March 3rd 1993 in Frankfurt, Germany the residential area for Oscar Schindler where he resided since age 16 of his life, Steven Spielberg was in the audience. According to the article, the film was received differently across the globe, with New York having the headlines “The Holocaust returned to Germany today with the opening of the movie Schindler’s List and the reopening of a national debate about guilt, courage and the unresolved mysteries of murder.” Spielberg used his production skills, bringing knowledge of the death and dehumanization to the cinematic screens without repelling the audience. Overall, the direction of the film forged a path of realities of the Holocaust, and thus allowed the audience to find and as well keep some movement in their minds, therefore, demonstrating the development of trauma through witnessing. As a result of the film’s greatness, it won a lot of trophies in the United States, including that of the best director. 

2. Ott, Brian L., and Carl R. Burgchardt. “On critical-rhetorical pedagogy: Dialoging with Schindler’s List.” Western Journal of Communication 77.1 (2013): 14-33.

The article is an analysis of the film “Schindler’s List.” According to the article, the two prevailing critical paradigms regarding media and rhetorical studies can be characterized by the artistic and ideological elements of the film. The two analytical modes impose a final signified on the text despite having evident differences, implying that each of the approach emphasizes that its critical interpretation as being authoritative, however none of the mode is perfectly suited for the broad aims of the critical pedagogy which values the dynamic and always unfinished interplay among the citizens, texts and students. The article draws on Mikhail Bakhtin’s notion regarding dialogism and offers an alternative critical paradigm that emphasizes on the lived experiences of the students as well as promoting agentive citizenship. The CRP paradigm relates to dialogical criticism. It situates in a much larger network of political and pedagogical discourses. The article has incorporated the use of provisional sketches to illustrate the use of the critical-rhetorical pedagogy, as it is presented in Schindler’s List by Stephen Spielberg. 

3. Tabraiz, Anas. “The holocaust as film and literature in Schindler’s List.” Creative Forum. Vol. 21. No. 1-2. Bahri Publications, 2008.

The article is an analysis of the film ‘Schindler List,’ through telling of an Australian Writer Thomas Keneally who wrote a book from an inspiration from the account of Poldek Pfefferberg, the owner of the shop where he had gone shopping. The shop owner narrated how he and his wife were among the 1200 Jews saved by Oscar Schindler, where later, Keneally transformed the narrative into a docu-novel named ‘Schindler’s Ark’ published in the year 1982. It is through the book’s account that the film “Schindler’s List was derived, including all the horrors of the Holocaust in Germany and how the Jews were saved. Similar to the film, the central character is Schindler as he was involved in formulating the list of Jews to be saved. The docu-novel follows a back and forth narrative in time that includes several narratives to provide a better idea of the history of the Holocaust.