Beyond "Life is Beautiful" : comedy and tragedy in the cinema of Roberto Benigni
"Russo Bullaro's collection focuses on Benigni's Oscar winning La vita e bella/Life is Beautiful, a film which has set off continuous and often bitter debate about Holocaust representation and historical consciousness. The topics covered in Russo Bullaro's collection offer insights from critics around the world in a forum for the consideration of the wider issues that Benigni's films provoke."--Jacket
Criticism, interpretation, etc
324 pages ; 21 cm.
9781904744832, 1904744834
60490469
Tracing the trajectory to Life is beautiful in Benigni's comic art / Grace Russo Bullaro
Italian sketch films and the narrative genealogy of Roberto Benigni's You upset me / David Scott Diffrient
The Italian Buster Keaton? Roberto Benigni's The monster and the comic machine / William Van Watson
Johnny Stecchino: L'Italia nel caleidoscopio / Umberto Taccheri
"Perché non ho scritto la Divina commedia? Perché non c'ho pensato": Dante's Commedia and the comic art of Roberto Benigni / Vittorio Montemaggi
Benigni's Pinocchio, or the tale of a failed national icon / Rebecca West
Benigni's postmodern storehouse of culture / Victoria Kirkham
Benigni's life-affirming lie: Life is beautiful as an aesthetic and moral response to the holocaust / Gefen Bar-on
La torta etiope e il cavallo ebreo: metaphor mythopoeia and symbolisms in Life is beautiful / Laura Leonardo
Life is beautiful and the protection of innocence: fable, fairy tale or just excuses? / Grace Russo Bullaro
Ma la vita è davvero bella? Lo spettacolo dell'olocausto, ovvero del nuovo kitsch / Erminia Passannanti
"No true darkness"? The critical response to Life is beautiful in Italy and Australia / Mirna Cicioni
Breaking the commandments of holocaust representation? Conflicting genre expectations in audience responses to Schindler's list and Life is beautiful / Janice Wendi Fernheimer