Conflicts of memory

the reception of Holocaust films and TV programmes in Italy, 1945 to the present

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Conflicts of memory

the reception of Holocaust films and TV programmes in Italy, 1945 to the present

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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Publisher
Peter Lang
Language
English
Pages
291

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Table of Contents

Early postwar debates : between Catholicism and resistance
"You are one of us" : the early 1960s
The "new discourse" and the universalisation of the Holocaust
The non-event : the broadcast of Holocaust
From the centrality of the resistance to that of the Holocaust
Postwar debates on the Vatican during the Holocaust
Conclusion : a post-antifascist memory of the Holocaust?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Oxford, New York
Series
Italian modernities -- 8

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/658405318
Library of Congress
DS135.I8 P47 2010, PN1995.9.H53

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
291

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24524373M
ISBN 13
9783039118809
LCCN
2010032121
OCLC/WorldCat
656556174

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15571861W

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