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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marcus, Millicent Joy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2007.
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).