LEADER 04753nam 22006015 450 001 9910255248303321 005 20201023074357.0 010 $a1-349-94908-6 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-349-94908-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000851176 035 $a(EBL)4716385 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-349-94908-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4716385 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000851176 100 $a20160911d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aInvestigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series $eMurder in the Age of Chaos /$fby Barbara Pezzotti 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aNew York :$cPalgrave Macmillan US :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (277 pages) 225 1 $aItalian and Italian American Studies,$x2635-2931 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-137-60310-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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 Novel -- Conclusion. . 330 $aThis 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 criminale?The series.? Providing the most wide-ranging examination of this sub-genre in Italy, Barbara Pezzotti places works set in the Risorgimento, WWII, and the Years of Lead in the larger social and political context of contemporary Italy. ?With this book, Pezzotti further cements her reputation as the foremost expert on the intersection of place, history, and national identity in Italian crime fiction. Essential reading.? (Robert Rushing, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) ?Pezzotti?s fine book presents an authoritative overview of recent Italian crime fiction. Lucidly written and compellingly interdisciplinary, this book emphasises the capacity of crime fiction to fill in the gaps left by historians, and the power and relevance of cultural responses to a contested and difficult past.? (Philip Cooke, Professor of Italian History and Culture, University of Strathclyde, UK) "Pezzotti's fascinating study shows how crime fiction has been used to probe and question Italy's historical open wounds and unresolved legacies. The Risorgimento, Fascism and the war, and the anni di piombo are each carefully illuminated in turn through the lens and intelligent eye of the contemporary giallo." (Robert S. C Gordon, Serena Professor of Italian, University of Cambridge, UK). 410 0$aItalian and Italian American Studies,$x2635-2931 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aMotion pictures?European influences 606 $aLiterature, Modern?20th century 606 $aEuropean Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/832000 606 $aEuropean Cinema and TV$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/413060 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/822000 607 $aItaly$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aItaly$2fast 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 0$aMotion pictures?European influences. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern?20th century. 615 14$aEuropean Literature. 615 24$aEuropean Cinema and TV. 615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 676 $a791.436556 700 $aPezzotti$b Barbara$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0913572 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255248303321 996 $aInvestigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series$92495931 997 $aUNINA