Film and the Shoah in France and Italy

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Film and the Shoah in France and Italy is a uniquely comparative analysis of the role of cinema in the development of collective memories of the Shoah in these countries. The work follows a chronological structure of which three French documentaries - Night and Fog, The Sorrow, and The Pity and Shoah - form the backbone. These three sections are linked by comparative case studies on famous and lesser-known fictional works, such as Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful, Louis Malle's Lacombe Lucien, Armand Gatti's ...
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Film and the Shoah in France and Italy is a uniquely comparative analysis of the role of cinema in the development of collective memories of the Shoah in these countries. The work follows a chronological structure of which three French documentaries - Night and Fog, The Sorrow, and The Pity and Shoah - form the backbone. These three sections are linked by comparative case studies on famous and lesser-known fictional works, such as Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful, Louis Malle's Lacombe Lucien, Armand Gatti's The Enclosure, and Radu Mihaileanu's Train of Life. The book tackles crucial themes, such as the politics of history and its representation, the 1970s obsession with collaboration, and the ethical debate around cinema's ability adequately to represent the Shoah. The book fulfils three complementary purposes: to offer a detailed historical and textual analysis of key cinematic works on the Shoah; to firmly situate the popular and institutional reception of these works within the political and socio-cultural context of the time, so as to link cinema to society's attitudes towards the Shoah; and thirdly, to show how these attitudes have changed over time, in order to evince the role cinema has played in the transmission of history and memory. Film and the Shoah in France and Italy shows that cinema has both reflected and affected the dominant perceptions of history, contributing to the transition from recognition to representation of the Shoah. The book also shows how this transition has been slow and uneven, and questions whether recognition and commemoration necessarily imply a deeper historical understanding.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780853037866
  • Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell Publishers
  • Publication date: 10/29/2008
  • Pages: 244
  • Product dimensions: 6.40 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction Screened memories 1

1 A resistant make-up : the making and reception of Nuit et Brouillard 14

2 The Shoah in black and white : 1959-61 41

3 The struggle, not the man : Kapo and L'Enclos 67

4 Unveiling the mirror : Le Chagrin et la Pitie 86

5 Blurred boundaries, 1970 to 1974 : Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, Il Portiere di Notte and Lacombe, Lucien 124

6 From recognition to representation : Claude Lanzmann's Shoah 159

7 La Vita e Bella and Train de Vie : 'preventing the eyes from seeing' versus 'cleaning the eyes that have seen too much' 190

Conclusion Beyond Benigni 216

Filmography and bibliography 223

Index 241

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