1. Teaching Schindler’s List: Fact, Fiction and Film in Remembering the Holocaust Student Edition
Based on a book, Holocaust as Horror by:
Caroline (Kay) Picart, Florida State
David Frank, U. of Oregon
Shortened versions have been published with The Horror Film (Rutgers UP, 2003) and Film and History.

2. Schindler’s List’s “Realism”
How “real” does Schindler’s List seem?
Why does it “look” so real?

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4. The Bilderverbot
Can you think of any objections on moral or aesthetic grounds to how Schindler’s List visualized the Holocaust?
             

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6. Key Question
Who is the “monster” in Schindler’s List? What makes this character monstrous?

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8. Two Key Scenes: Describe them briefly, both in terms of content and form.
The shower scene at Auschwitz
The seduction-turned-torture of Helen Hirsch by Amon Goeth

9. The Shower Scene in SL
Whose gaze do we share?
How do we know this?

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11. Schindler’s List and Psycho
Can you see any similarities between the shower scene in Psycho and the one in Schindler’s List?

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13. Key Question
Which two stereotypes are illustrated particularly in the scene where Goeth hovers around Helen Hirsch?

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15. Law and Crime How are law and crime depicted in Schindler’s List?
What cinematic conventions are used to code the “good German” (Schindler) vs. the “bad German” (Goeth)?

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17. Discussion Questions
Compare Schindler’s List’s holocaust narrative with Shoah. Do the comparisons both in terms of content and film form. Choose one scene from each film to back up your comparison.
Comment on how Spielberg and Kingsley interact re. representing the Holocaust in Survivors of the Holocaust (Steven Spielberg and Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation).

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