Shoah and Spielberg. A Narrative Model to Tell the Holocaust, 25 Years Later

Authors

  • Carlos López-Olano Universitat de València
  • Juan Carlos Colomer Rubio Universitat de València

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.20.19386

Keywords:

Holocaust, shoah, nazi, Schindler, memory, Spielberg.

Abstract

Schindler’s list represents a turning point in the narrative of the Holocaust. The film was well received by critics and the public, something unusual in Steven Spielberg’s career, as he was often considered as an author for children and good enough only as a filmmaker of adventures, yet not so much in Jewish intellectual circles. The negative critique to Spielberg’s cruel but hopeful fable was exercised especially by the director of another reference of the genre, formally situated at the opposite extreme: Claude Lanzmann, the director of the monumental Shoah. Now, a quarter of a century later, we analyze in this article what remains of the discussion and of  Spielberg’s model of narration of what was one of the bleakest episodes of recent history: the nazi attempt of the Jews’ extermination. 

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Author Biographies

Carlos López-Olano, Universitat de València

Carlos López-Olano . PhD in Communication. He has worked as a journalist in different media such as A3, RTVV or À Punt, and is now Associate Professor of Communication at the Universitat de València. Also a researcher and Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), at the University of Roehampton in London and at the University of Glasgow. He has written several books and articles about cinema, public television and historical memory.

Juan Carlos Colomer Rubio, Universitat de València

Juan Carlos Colomer Rubio.  PhD in Contemporary History from the Universitat de València, he is currently a lecturer in the Department of Education-Experimental and Social Sciences at the Teachers’ College of the same university. He is a specialist in teaching history with technological and audiovisual resources and has been visiting lecturer at the universities of Harvard (USA), Oslomet (Norway) and Alagoas (Brazil).

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2020-12-30

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López-Olano, C., & Colomer Rubio, J. C. (2020). Shoah and Spielberg. A Narrative Model to Tell the Holocaust, 25 Years Later. EU-topías. A Journal on Interculturality, Communication, and European Studies, 20, 21–30. https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.20.19386
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