Affective Historiography: Schindler's List, Melodrama and Historical Representation.

With Hayden Whites notion of the "content of the form" of narrative as a starting point, this article argues that the melodramatic form of Steven Spielbergs Schindler's List (1993) constitutes a distinct mode of historical representation that must be critically accounted for alongside the manifest c...

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Published in:	Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 66 - 95
Main Author:	Maron, Jeremy
Format:	Film/TV Criticism and Review
Published:	Purdue University Press Summer2009
Subjects:	Schindler's List (Film) Spielberg, Steven, 1946- Melodrama History in motion pictures Holocaust, 1939-1945, in motion pictures Searchers, The (Film : 1956) Neeson, Liam, 1952- Historiography
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