Ellen Nerenberg

Murder Made in Italy

Homicide, Media, and Contemporary Italian Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The worldwide publicity given the recent case of Amanda Knox, the American student tried for murder in a Perugia court, once more drew attention to crime and punishment in Italy and is the subject of the epilogue.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780253223098
• ISBN-10: 0253223091
• Artikelnr.: 34929872

Autorenporträt

Ellen Nerenberg is Hollis Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University. She is author of Prison Terms: Representing Confinement During and After Italian Fascism and translator and editor of (with Nicoletta Marini-Maio and Thomas Simpson), Body of State: The Moro Affair, a Nation Divided.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Making a Killing
Part I: Serial Killing
1.The "Monster" of Florence: Serial Murders and investigation
2.Monstrous Murder: Serial Killers and Detectives in Contemporary Italian
Literature
3.Penile Procedure: The Pleasures and Dangers of Looking in Dario Argento's
Cinema
Part II: Matricide and Fratricide Erika, Omar, and Violent Youth in Italy
4."Sono stati loro:" Erika, Omar, and the Double Homicide of Susy Cassini
and Gianluca De Nardo in Novi Ligure
5.The Raw and the Cooked: Transnational Media and Violence in Italy's
"Cannibal" Pulp Fiction of the 1990s
Part III: Filicide The Bad/Mad Mother of Cogne and Violence Against
Children
6.The Yellow and the Black: Cogne or, Crime of the Century
7.Spectacular Grief and Public Mourning
8.Unspeakable Crimes: Children as Witnesses, Victims, and Perpetrators
Epilogue: Kiss Me Deadly
Notes
Bibliography
Index