Investigating Italy's past through historical crime fiction, films, and TV series : murder in the age of chaos / Barbara Pezzotti.

Author
Pezzotti, Barbara [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Description
vii, 270 pages ; 22 cm.

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    Series
    • Italian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) [More in this series]
    • Italian and Italian American studies
    Summary note
    "This book is the first monograph in English that comprehensively examines the ways in which Italian historical crime novels, TV series, and films have become a means to intervene in the social and political changes of the country. This study explores the ways in which fictional representations of the past mirror contemporaneous anxieties within Italian society in the work of writers such as Leonardo Sciascia, Andrea Camilleri, Carlo Lucarelli, Francesco Guccini, Loriano Macchiavelli, Marcello Fois, Maurizio De Giovanni, and Giancarlo De Cataldo; film directors such as Elio Petri, Pietro Germi, Michele Placido, and Damiano Damiani; and TV series such as the "Commissario De Luca" series, the "Commissario Nardone" series, and "Romanzo criminaleThe series."--Back cover.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-261), filmography (pages 261-262) and index.
    Contents
    • The Foundation of the State: Giallo and the Risorgimento
    • The Giallo and the Black: The Representation of Fascism and WWII Between Revisionism and Criticism
    • The Giallo and Terrorism: The Years of Lead and the Conspiracy Theory.
    ISBN
    • 9781137603104 ((hardback ; : acid-free paper))
    • 1137603100 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2016948747
    OCLC
    945949217
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