Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz /
"In addition to Roberto Benigni's internationally acclaimed Life is Beautiful (1997), there have appeared a number of other Italian films that deal with the Holocaust, many of which have not been available to foreign audiences. Millicent Marcus's Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwit...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I 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. diaphonous body of films
- pt. II Recovered memory : contemporary Italian Holocaust films in depth
- 3. haunting strains of Holocaust memory : Ricky Rognazzi's Canone inverso (Making love)
- 4. childhood paradise lost : Andrea and Antonio Frazzi's Il cielo cade (The sky is falling)
- 5. alter-biography of the other-in-our-midst : Ettore Scola's Concorrenza sleale (Unfair competition)
- 6. Holocaust rescue narrative and the end of ideology : Alberto Negrin's Perlasca : Un eroe italiano (Perlasca : the courage of a just man)
- 7. 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).


