“Life is Beautiful”: Reception, Allegory, and Holocaust Laughter
Abstract
Viano says Roberto Benigni’s Life is beautiful is the film that has achieved a public success but has also been the target of sharp criticism. Viano claims that an analysis of critical judgements has allowed him to find out that whether opinions are favourable depends on a level of intellectual hierarchy of the opinion making person. He has also raised a very topical and sensitive issue of the use of comedy in the context of the tragedy of the Holocaust.
- The text is a translation of an article “Life Is Beautiful”: Reception, Allegory, and Holocaust Laughter by Maurizio Viano, Film Quarterly 1999, vol. 53, no 1. © 1999 by Film Quarterly.
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Roberto Benigni, Holocaust, comedyReferences
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Maurizio Vianokwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Wellesley College United States
Wykładowca w Wellesley College, prowadzi zajęcia z zakresu kina włoskiego.
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