Assassinations and Murder in Modern Italy
Transformations in Society and Culture
Gundle, Stephen (EDT)
Rinaldi, Lucia (EDT)
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Contemporary Italian history has been marked by an extraordinary series of murders and political assassinations. The shooting of King Umberto in 1900 by an anarchist, the various attempts on the life of Mussolini, the killing of former prime minister Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades in 1978, and the shooting of the student Carlo Giuliani by a policeman during the G8 protests in Genoa in 2001 were all highly controversial events that provoked far-reaching reactions. The contributions to this book explore these and many other Italian true crime and political murder cases. They analyze them in their historical and cultural contexts and explore the films, fiction, theatre and art that they have inspired.
AUTHOR BIO
Stephen Gundle is Professor of Italian Cultural History at Royal Holloway, University of London. Lucia Rinaldi completed her PhD dissertation at Royal Holloway, University of London on postmodernism and identity in contemporary Italian crime fiction and is a Teaching Fellow in Italian at the University of Exeter.
BOOK REVIEWS
This collection will prove to be an interesting and useful compendium for Italian undergraduate courses that bear on political culture, history, cultural studies and film. These essays make clear historical connections to both the specific case under analysis and the broader context of the complex dynamics of political forces and alliances at a given time. They bring important attention to how past crimes such as the case of the Cervi brothers or of Carlo and Nello Rosselli have been received and reinterpreted at different times. Indeed, through the dynamics of murder cases, this book highlights how such violent acts always occurred in periods of great political, cultural and social transformation in Italian society.Eugenia Paulicelli, Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1403983917
ISBN(13-digit): 9781403983916
Dewey Decimal: 945
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 246
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