Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz [With DVD]

by 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 example, but there have been a number of other works that have not been exported that also attest to a distinct tendency within Italian domestic production...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080209189X
• ISBN13: 9780802091895
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher