Steven Spielberg: Director of Many...

The link provided is to Wikipedia, where it gives an in depth biography of famous director Steven Spielberg. The article goes on to explain,

Spielberg is the most financially successful motion picture director of all time. He has directed and/or produced a number of major box office hits.

It goes on to talk about his life, all the films he has created, and the numerous awards that he has received. Spielberg is best known for films that instills some sort of fear in his audience, where it be aliens, the Holocaust, or man-eating dinosaurs. This type of genre is what Spielberg is into and good at. Because of this, he has received many awards for best director (Schindler's List, 1994), best picture (Schindler's List, 1994) and Best Foreign Language Film (Letters from Iwo Jima) to name a few. Check out this article, it has many interesting bits of information. :)

Historical analysis of Schindler's List

Yosefa Loshitzky writes about Spielberg's movie "Schindler's List." He challenges if the movie really is historically correct and if the Hollywood version of the Holocaust is correct. He discusses the books historians have written about the genocide, and if the history of the event matches up with the dramatized version of the horrible event in Spielberg's film.

History Behind Schindler's List

The link provided gives an in-depth summary of the Holocaust, which is the event that the movie Schindler's List focuses on.

During World War II, Nazi Germany and its collaborators murdered approximately six million Jews. The Holocaust is the name used to refer to this systematic, bureaucratic, and state-sponsored campaign of persecution and murder. Beginning with racially discriminatory laws in Germany, the Nazi campaign expanded to the mass murder of all European Jews.

Schindler's List helps the audience grasp what was going on and tells its story through the perspective of Oscar Schindler and some of the Jews that were captured. For the film Schindler's List, experts on the Holocaust were brought in to make sure the film stayed true to historical facts. The nice aspect about the link I provided is that it lets you click on keys words surrounding the Holocaust and goes into further detail on each of those words. For example, you can click on "concentration camps," and the site will take you to another page that deals only with different concentration camps and how they were used in Schindler's List.

Schindler's List: My Father is a Schindler Jew

This article is great for us to use in our major project. The author, Les White, does a great job telling us about many of characteristics Corrigan describes in his book. He talks about cinematography, auteur and gives many different examples. Below are some really good ones that we can use in our final project.White argues that while many liked the black and white cinematography and felt that it was a symbol of the dark events that took place, he feels it took away from the reality of the movie.

“The film’s Holocaust is removed from reality. Yet the Holocaust deserves to be rendered truthfully in all its detail because it challenges and contradicts any advances made by human beings.”

White illustrates this point by giving an example in the movie where the lack of color takes away from the larger picture.

“Without color, the ash from the crematoriums resembles white, purifying snow and not dirty, non-melting ash.”

By only using black and white, White argues that the movie watchers lose some perspective on just how bad the situation was.