Essays on Schindler's List

The two films I watched by Steven Spielberg were “Saving Private Ryan” and “Schindlers List” captured interesting elements of mise en scene and uses of editing. Mise-en scene, Literally means, “to put on stage” or “placing of a scene” in French, its used to describe...

Transitions are made in moments of realisation that are taken up by characters in texts. These moments of realisation allows said characters to undergo transitions that affect their actions, thoughts and feelings. In Michael Gow’s “Away” the characters Gwen and Coral originally face behavioural problems....

The Holocaust was a real, frightening, and horrific event for many people. The Nazis have slaughtered six million Jews on their own, which is crazy to imagine. The numerous ways in which they have been tormented and killed are so vast that they can be...

Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List are known as two of the most important films in the 20th century that portray the historical tragedy of the Holocaust. Although made eight years apart, both directors used techniques to present specific aspects of these historical...

Schindler’s List is a historical period drama that takes place and is filmed in Krakow, Poland. The film was directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and is based on the novel written by Australian author, Thomas Keneally. Keneally wrote Schindler’s Ark, which was published in...

Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List” and Alain Resnais’ “Night and Fog”, both are a source of light on the horrible event of the Holocaust, but what differentiates one from the other is the fact that they both are portrayed through different styles of film-making, have different...

Despite the countless award-winning recollections of indifference throughout history, the persecution depicted within Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s List against the Jewish people during the Holocaust remains as a significant substantiation of detrimental human oppression. Thomas Keneally’s novel titled Schindler’s List should be the recipient of the...

Introduction The film ‘Schindler’s List’ begins in September 1939 in the Krakow village of Poland, which was occupied by German troops during World War II. In the case of Jews, they register their family number and more than 10,000 Jews every day. They arrive at...