The peer-reviewed article Affective historiography: Schindler's List, melodrama and historical representation was written by Jeremy Maron and published on Shofar by Carleton University on 2009. This article includes several scholars' thoughts on discussing the effectiveness of using melodrama as a specific genre to present history. It started with Hayden White's idea of “content of the form” which mainly focus on “the relationship between narrative discourse and historical representation.” On this aspect, the article closely analyses the representation of various narrative characters from several films to provide evidence of the changes on how audiences receive the historical information more objectively or subjectively due to different narratives that have been produced in the melodrama. …show more content…
As another sub-argument, the author draws the attrition to how to make comparisons on the timelines by using the melodramatic approaches. The author brings up the phrase “docudrama” in the article and argues that this “post-modern genre” transfers the attention of debating whether the film is about presenting the historical fact or it is just a fiction. On the other hand, the article also makes the notion of some disapproval voices from the critics about Schindler's List which argues about the focus of Oscar Schindler's single person narrative approach at the beginning of the film changes more towards the Jewish people's surviving scenes, so this is not a really good methodology to combine the emotions with the