"...the Nazi persecution of the Jews is a perilous subject because it can so easily arouse automatic reactions of moral outrage, personal horror, religious complacency, and dramatic extremes, not to mention severe depression” (McCarthy, 1993) Schindler's List was created just months after the inauguration of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, leading to capitalizing success. American people's cultural interest in historical voyeurism The critical reception of Schindler's List is an intellectual discussion of the moral nature of a film through the ability to dramatize what was deemed impossible critically and selectively; social consciousness and a division over Spielberg's stylistic representation of the subject. Scholarship on Schindler's List reaches only one common thesis, that of its transitional nature in his film career towards a more self-proclaimed seriousness by associating the blockbuster with. a sober artistic work (Grainge, Jancovich and Monteith, 2012). Critical reception of Spielberg's work comments on the true nature of his Holocaust memorial with appropriate restraint or typical emotional manipulation, combined with arguments about the nature of the film as artistic or entertaining. The temporal and spatial variations do not seem to affect the critics' evaluation, it seems to be more Spielberg's vision as an author and also their comfort in exploring such a sensitive historical memory. The Deconstruction of Reception will discuss the stylistic nature of the film with controversial documented cinematography, alongside the place of Schindler's List among other works in regards to the subject of the Holocaust and Spielberg's handling of the digestible . Immediately and p...... middle of paper ......a film is not simply a work of art, it is the story of a historical tragedy that would be considered an economic success ; Schindler's List is about about 200 Jews who lived, while the Holocaust had about 6 million deaths, the film needed a Hollywood nature to be popular and consumable (Kubrick, 2000). Works Cited Grainge, P., Jancovich, M. and Monteith, S. (2012). Histories of cinema; An introduction and a reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Heilman, J. (2004, May). Schindler's List. Retrieved March 2014 from Movie Martyr: www.moviemartyr.comKauffman, S. (1993, December 10). A new Spielberg; and others. New Republic. Kubrick, S. (2000). Malcolm, D. (February 17, 1994). Schindler's List. Guardian. McCarthy, T. (1993, November 19). Schindler's List Review. Variety. Novick, P. (2000). The Holocaust in American Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.