Schindler's List Summary
Thomas Keneally

Schindler's List The highly anticipated film Schindler's List, directed by Steven Spielberg and based on a 1982 historical novel entitled Schindler's Ark by Australian writer Thom... Read more

Thomas Keneally (born 1935) is an Australian novelist and nonfiction writer who gained worldwide attention when his best-known work, the Holocaust novel Schindler's List, was adapted into an Academy A... Read more

An Australian Catholic with no immediate ties to the Holocaust, Thomas Keneally had written sixteen novels before Schindler's List (first published as Schindler's Ark, 1982) and has continued to prod... Read more

Critical Essay by Peter Kemp [Thomas Keneally's Schindler's Ark (published in the United States as Schindler's List)] deals with Europe during the Second World War…. Sc... Read more

Critical Essay by Paul Zweig History would not normally be concerned with such a man as Oskar Schindler, a mere minor player in the sybaritic night life of a small Polish city during an unspeakable w... Read more

Critical Essay by Marion Glastonbury To conceive of the unendurable present as part of a story with a significant plot and uncertain outcome presupposed an outside world of shared meanings and moral ... Read more

In the following review, Wieseltier counters the prevailing positive critical reception of Schindler's List, contending that the film is self-conscious and glib and fails to fully grasp its sub... Read more

In the following review, Cheyette praises the ambition and power of Schindler's List, asserting that, despite its limitations, the film is an “outstanding achievement.” It is t... Read more

In the following review, White addresses Schindler's List as a work of historical realism and considers the film to be Spielberg's “most compromised” work. 1. “Wi... Read more

Schindler's List, directed by Steven Spielberg, stars Liam Neason, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, and a host of wonderful co-stars, is the story of Oskar Schindler. Oskar Schindler was a Nazi business... Read more

In the book, "Schindler's List," Schindler is quoted for saying, "A life is not worth a pack of cigarettes." So the question that arouses in most minds is what caused the drastic change in this man? ... Read more

The word holocaust is derived form two Greek words: holo, meaning whole and caust, meaning fire. Literally, the Greek word means to be totally consumed by fire. The holocaust has come to describe t... Read more

The characterization of Steven Spielberg's epic style holocaust film, Schindler's List bases itself around the fundamental groups of Nazi Germany: the Jews, the Nazis and the German citizens; each rep... Read more

Oskar Schindler was a shrewd businessman who proved that people can be transformed. Mr. Schindler was an intelligent and patient man who was very capable of controlling situations to fit his needs. ... Read more

Films are a popular form of entertainment. Films usually contain heroes and villains to make them interesting and entertaining to the viewer. Steven Spielberg's realistic film, Schindler's List, als... Read more