Conflicts of Memories: The Reception of Holocaust Films and TV Programmes in Italy, 1945 to the Present - Couverture souple

Perra, Emiliano

 
9783039118809: Conflicts of Memories: The Reception of Holocaust Films and TV Programmes in Italy, 1945 to the Present
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3039118803 ISBN 13 : 9783039118809
Editeur : Verlag Peter Lang, 2010

Synopsis

Situated at the confluence of history, media and cultural studies, this book reconstructs the often deeply discordant and highly selective memories of the Holocaust in Italy in the postwar era. The author's core method is one of reception analysis, centred on the public responses to the many films and television programmes that have addressed the Holocaust from the 1940s to the present day. Tied to the heritage of Fascism, antifascism, and the Resistance, public memory of the Holocaust in Italy has changed greatly over the years. Self-acquitting myths of Italian innocence and victimhood, and universalising interpretations grounded in Catholicism and Communism, provided the initial frameworks for understanding the Holocaust. However, the last two decades have seen an increasing centrality of the Holocaust in memory culture but have also witnessed the establishment of a paradigm that relativises other fascist crimes and levels the differences between Fascism and antifascism. Working with the largest corpus yet established of Holocaust film and television in Italy, from the 1948 retelling of the Wandering Jew myth to Roberto Benigni's controversial Life Is Beautiful, from the American miniseries Holocaust to Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man, Conflicts of Memory probes Italy's ongoing, if incomplete, process of coming to terms with this important aspect of its past.

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À propos de l?auteur

Emiliano Perra is Visiting Fellow in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Bristol and has previously lectured at the University of Cardiff. His publications include articles in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Memory Studies.

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Éditeur
Verlag Peter Lang
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3039118803
ISBN 13 
9783039118809
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
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