Giacomo Lichtner

Senior Lecturer

BA, PhD (Reading)

Contact details

Honours Coordinator for 2009

Lectures in

HIST 238: From Fascism to Forza Italia: A Cultural History Italy, 1922-2000
HIST 318: Special Topic: Mobilising the Masses: Propoganda in Twentieth Century Europe
HIST 423: A Topic in Historiography and Historical Method 2: Film and History (not offered in 2009)
HIST 502: Presenting History (not offered in 2009)

Research Areas

• History and Film: representation of history in film; film as historical evidence
• The Holocaust on the screen; collective memory and the use of film in the construction of national and social myths
• Issues in the history of 20th century Europe and the history of the Jews

Recent Publications

Single-authored Books
Lichtner, G., Film and the Shoah in France and Italy, London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2008.

Journal articles

• ‘The struggle, not the man: Jews and Judaism in Kapo and L’enclos’, under consideration by Film and History.
• ‘Indian Cinema and the politics of history: Earth and Lagaaan’, accepted by Asian Survey.

Essays in Refereed Publications

• ‘The experience of Total War, 1939-45’ for Nicholas Atkin ed., Themes in Modern European History 1890-1945 – 2^nd edition, Routledge, Forthcoming, 2008.
• ‘KZ’, in Bill Gosden ed., 2006 New Zealand International Film Festivals Catalogue, NZ FilmFestival Trust, Wellington, 2006.
• ‘For the few not the many: Delusion and Denial in Italian Holocaust Films’, in Toby Haggith and Joanna Newman eds, Holocaust and the Moving Image: Film and Television Representations Since 1933, Wallflower Press, London, 2005.
• ‘The good, the bad and the ugly: the endings of Holocaust film narratives’, in National Film & Sound Archive ed., Credits rolling: proceedings of the 12^th Conference of the Film & History Association of Australia & NZ: Selected papers, Canberra, 2005.

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