Narratives of Innocence and Victimhood: The Reception of the Miniseries Holocaust in Italy
In Italy, the heavy politicization of public discourse, together with dominant cultural narratives positing the country as a “victim” nation in the Second World War, influenced the reception of NBC's miniseries Holocaust. These influences revealed themselves in three main trends: the discussion...
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| 格式: | 电子 文件 |
| 语言: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2008, 卷: 22, 发布: 3, Pages: 411-440 |
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| 总结: | In Italy, the heavy politicization of public discourse, together with dominant cultural narratives positing the country as a “victim” nation in the Second World War, influenced the reception of NBC's miniseries Holocaust. These influences revealed themselves in three main trends: the discussion of the country's involvement in the Holocaust in highly self-acquitting terms that perpetuated a variant of the “good Italian” stereotype; the peculiar domestication of the debate on the “Americanization of the Holocaust”; and the substantially uncontested circulation of various universalizations in the discussion of the program's “meanings.” |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcn039 |