Emiliano Perra
Biographic Data
| ID | 784515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emiliano Perra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emiliano |
| FAMILY NAME | Perra |
| SIGNATURE | PERRA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Winchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9999-3035 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Italy’s Christian Democracy
Roundtable on Populism and Perpetrator Studies
This roundtable takes the lead from the publication of three important books by Valentina Pisanty, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, and Alexander Laban Hinton that tackle specific aspects of the current populist wave. The themes raised by Pisanty, Ben-Ghiat, and Hinton are then built upon by Luisa Morettin and Wulf Kansteiner
The Guardians of Memory
Interview with Valentina Pisanty on her book The Guardians of Memory and the Return of the Xenophobic Right (New York: Centro Primo Levi Editions, 2021), a provocative investigation of the weaknesses of dominant Holocaust memory culture, which often ends up being appropriated by illiberal and xenophobic forces
Remember Without Hate’
This article discusses a small cluster of documentary programmes that aired in the first half of the 1960s and representing Italian TV’s earliest forms of engagement with Holocaust-related topics. Within this small corpus, particular attention will be given to two documentary programmes broadcast by Italian State-owned network RAI in 1965. The documentaries Europa per la libertà (Europe for Liberty) and Il giorno della pace (The Day of Peace) rep…
From Belsen to Gaza
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 …
Après Holocaust
The article explores the representation of the Holocaust in Italian and French television miniseries, made-for-TV films and docufictions since the broadcast of the miniseries Holocaust in 1979. Most of the works discussed in this article have one underlying theme: the relationship between France and Italy and the Holocaust. This is inflected in a series of conceptual couples, such as guilt and innocence, collaboration and resistance, rescue and c…
The fascists and the Jews of Italy
The fascists and the Jews of Italy: Mussolini’s race laws, 1938–1943." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 17(1), pp. 129–130
History, memory, and trans-European identity
Good Catholics, Good Italians
The Holocaust features prominently in a number of recent Italian television productions, many of which have focused on members of the Catholic clergy and on secular but pious historical figures. This article argues that such cultural products partake of a broader process of constructing a normative, ‘consensual’, and inherently conservative notion of Italian national identity for the twenty-first century. The article will combine two lines of enq…
Legitimizing fascism through the Holocaust? The reception of the miniseries Perlasca
This article discusses the rise in recent years of Giorgio Perlasca as a key symbolic figure in public memory constructs of the Holocaust in Italy, culminating in RAI’s broadcast of the miniseries Perlasca: un eroe italiano in 2002. After almost 50 years of silence, Perlasca’s complex profile of unreconstructed fascist and rescuer of thousands of Hungarian Jews has been instrumental in proposing different but coexisting narratives. On the one han…
Rome Fellowships
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Narratives of Innocence and Victimhood
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 do…
History, memory, and trans-European identity
Legitimizing fascism through the Holocaust? The reception of the miniseries Perlasca
This article discusses the rise in recent years of Giorgio Perlasca as a key symbolic figure in public memory constructs of the Holocaust in Italy, culminating in RAI’s broadcast of the miniseries Perlasca: un eroe italiano in 2002. After almost 50 years of silence, Perlasca’s complex profile of unreconstructed fascist and rescuer of thousands of Hungarian Jews has been instrumental in proposing different but coexisting narratives. On the one han…
Narratives of Innocence and Victimhood
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 do…
Narratives of Innocence and Victimhood
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 do…
Legitimizing fascism through the Holocaust? The reception of the miniseries Perlasca
This article discusses the rise in recent years of Giorgio Perlasca as a key symbolic figure in public memory constructs of the Holocaust in Italy, culminating in RAI’s broadcast of the miniseries Perlasca: un eroe italiano in 2002. After almost 50 years of silence, Perlasca’s complex profile of unreconstructed fascist and rescuer of thousands of Hungarian Jews has been instrumental in proposing different but coexisting narratives. On the one han…
Rome Fellowships
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Good Catholics, Good Italians
The Holocaust features prominently in a number of recent Italian television productions, many of which have focused on members of the Catholic clergy and on secular but pious historical figures. This article argues that such cultural products partake of a broader process of constructing a normative, ‘consensual’, and inherently conservative notion of Italian national identity for the twenty-first century. The article will combine two lines of enq…
History, memory, and trans-European identity
Après Holocaust
The article explores the representation of the Holocaust in Italian and French television miniseries, made-for-TV films and docufictions since the broadcast of the miniseries Holocaust in 1979. Most of the works discussed in this article have one underlying theme: the relationship between France and Italy and the Holocaust. This is inflected in a series of conceptual couples, such as guilt and innocence, collaboration and resistance, rescue and c…
The fascists and the Jews of Italy
The fascists and the Jews of Italy: Mussolini’s race laws, 1938–1943." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 17(1), pp. 129–130
Remember Without Hate’
This article discusses a small cluster of documentary programmes that aired in the first half of the 1960s and representing Italian TV’s earliest forms of engagement with Holocaust-related topics. Within this small corpus, particular attention will be given to two documentary programmes broadcast by Italian State-owned network RAI in 1965. The documentaries Europa per la libertà (Europe for Liberty) and Il giorno della pace (The Day of Peace) rep…
From Belsen to Gaza
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 …
Roundtable on Populism and Perpetrator Studies
This roundtable takes the lead from the publication of three important books by Valentina Pisanty, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, and Alexander Laban Hinton that tackle specific aspects of the current populist wave. The themes raised by Pisanty, Ben-Ghiat, and Hinton are then built upon by Luisa Morettin and Wulf Kansteiner
The Guardians of Memory
Interview with Valentina Pisanty on her book The Guardians of Memory and the Return of the Xenophobic Right (New York: Centro Primo Levi Editions, 2021), a provocative investigation of the weaknesses of dominant Holocaust memory culture, which often ends up being appropriated by illiberal and xenophobic forces
Italy’s Christian Democracy
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Law (8 works) · European history and politics (7 works) · History (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works)