03249nam 2200577Ia 450 991079217810332120230126204327.00-253-01242-2(CKB)2560000000102013(EBL)1207319(OCoLC)848917438(MiAaPQ)EBC1207319(MdBmJHUP)muse29115(Au-PeEL)EBL1207319(CaPaEBR)ebr10716188(CaONFJC)MIL494889(EXLCZ)99256000000010201320120301d2012 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMurder made in Italy[electronic resource] homicide, media, and contemporary Italian culture /Ellen NerenbergBloomington Indiana University Pressc20121 online resource (401 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-22309-1 0-253-35625-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: making a killing -- Serial killing. The "monster" of Florence: serial murders and investigation -- Monstrous murder: serial killers and detectives in contemporary Italian fiction -- "Penile" procedure: law and order in Dario Argento's cinema -- Matricide and fratricide: Erika, Omar, and violent youth in Italy. Sono stati loro: Erika, Omar, and the double homicide of Susy Cassini and Gianluca de Nardo in Novi Ligure -- The raw and the cooked: transnational media and violence in Italy's cannibal pulp fiction of the 1990's -- Filicide: the bad/mad mother of Cogne and violence against children. The yellow and the black: Cogne; or, crime of the century -- Spectacular grief and public mourning -- Unspeakable crimes: children as witnesses, victims, and perpetrators -- Epilogue: kiss me deadly.Looking at media coverage of three very prominent murder cases, Murder Made in Italy explores the cultural issues raised by the murders and how they reflect developments in Italian civil society over the past 20 years. Providing detailed descriptions of each murder, investigation, and court case, Ellen Nerenberg addresses the perception of lawlessness in Italy, the country's geography of crime, and the generalized fear for public safety among the Italian population. Nerenberg examines the fictional and nonfictional representations of these crimes through the lenses of moral panic, media...Murder in mass mediaItalyMass media and criminal justiceItalyMass mediaSocial aspectsItalyMass mediaObjectivityItalyCriminal justice, Administration ofItalyMurder in mass mediaMass media and criminal justiceMass mediaSocial aspectsMass mediaObjectivityCriminal justice, Administration of364.152/30945Nerenberg Ellen Victoria1962-1497107MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792178103321Murder made in Italy3722151UNINA