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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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.