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Intermittently Americanized? Italian Debates on Holocaust Cultural Products
Author(s): Perra, Emiliano
Editor(s): Krabbendam, Hans; Rubin, Derek
Date: 2017
Topics: Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust, Film, Television, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Abstract: The essay argues that the political situation in the country in which miniseries and films are shown, determines whether they are severely criticized for being Americanized. Four Italian case studies show how the transatlantic political relations were a defining factor in framing cultural products as Americanization of the Holocaust for domestic purposes.
Da Belsen a Gaza: The Promise e l’identità nazionale britannica
Translated Title: From Belsen to Gaza: The Promise and British national identity
Author(s): Perra, Emiliano
Editor(s): Garofalo, Damiano; Roghi, Vanessa
Date: 2015
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Television, Zionism, Anti-Zionism, Representation, Attitudes to Israel, Attitudes to Jews, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Conflict
From Belsen to Gaza: The Promise (2011), British and British-Jewish identity
Author(s): Perra, Emiliano
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Television, Zionism, Anti-Zionism, Representation, Attitudes to Israel, Attitudes to Jews, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Conflict
Abstract: This article discusses Peter Kosminsky’s miniseries The Promise (2011) and investigates the intense public responses it engendered in Britain. The first part of the article explores how the miniseries takes the lead from the liberation of Belsen to engage with issues of British national self-perception. Drawing on the notion of ‘postimperial melancholia’, the article argues that The Promise explores important issues related to Britain’s past and present, in particular the lasting heritage of Empire. The second part engages with the intense reception of the miniseries among opinion makers and the general public, with many critics seeing The Promise as aimed at delegitimising the State of Israel. In thus doing, the article situates the debate within broader discussions on the supposed relationship between anti-Zionism and “new anti-Semitism”, and more specifically discussion of the role of anti-Zionist Jews. The debate around The Promise is a case study for the exploration of two related controversies. The first one pertains to Jewish/non-Jewish relations, in particular regarding the international role of Israel in the twenty-first century. The second one is more specifically infra-Jewish and revolves around the issue of which subjects are legitimate to speak out as Jews and in the name of which values.