Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz / / Millicent Marcus.

The last decade has witnessed an outpouring of Italian films that deal with Fascism, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. This would appear to mark a distinct change from the postwar reluctance to represent such an infamous history. Roberto Benigni's popular Life is Beautiful (1997) is an obvious e...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2009
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Historical Background Sketch
  • Part One. Weak Memory: From the End of the Second World War to the End of the Cold War, with a Foray into the 1990s
  • 1. Ghost Stories: An Introduction
  • 2. A Diaphanous Body of Films
  • Part Two. Recovered Memory: Contemporary Italian Holocaust Films in Depth
  • 3. The Haunting Strains of Holocaust Memory: Ricky Tognazzi's Canone inverso (Making Love)
  • 4. A Childhood Paradise Lost: Andrea and Antonio Frazzi's Il cielo cade (The Sky Is Falling)
  • 5. The Alter-Biography of the Other-in-Our- Midst: Ettore Scola's Concorrenza sleale (Unfair Competition)
  • 6. The Holocaust Rescue Narrative and the End of Ideology: Alberto Negrin's Perlasca, un eroe italiano (Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man)
  • 7. The Present through the Eyes of the Past: Ferzan Ozpetek's La finestra di fronte (Facing Windows)
  • Postscript - A Glimpse at 2004: Il servo ungherese (The Hungarian Servant) and La fuga degli innocenti (The Flight of the Innocents)
  • Epilogue: The Holocaust, the Cinema, and 'the Italian Case' in Ettore Scola's '43-'97
  • Bibliography
  • Film Index
  • General Index