In Steven Spielberg's Schinder's List, the economy of narrative and aesthetic pleasure consistently undermines its attempts at representing traumatic events. When the film's focus stays close to the figure of Oskar Schindler--as Nazi, (failed) capitalist,...
"When I think of God, it's more often the God of the Old Testament ... a demanding, cruel God." Krzysztof Kieslowski (Stok 149) "I bear a grudge, or am bitter, towards the life which surrounded me, surrounds me and will surround me, and which...
One benefit of the proximate publication of Linda Williams's Viewing Positions (1994) and David Bordwell and Noel Carroll's Post-Theory (1996) lies in their introductions' concurring summaries, from opposed perspectives, of recent developments in...