Investigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series: Murder in the Age of Chaos (Italian and Italian American Studies) - Softcover

Pezzotti, Barbara

 
9781349958849: Investigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series: Murder in the Age of Chaos (Italian and Italian American Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1349958840 ISBN 13: 9781349958849
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

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 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.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Barbara Pezzotti is an Honorary Research Associate of the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS), Australia. She received her PhD from Victoria University, New Zealand and is the author of The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction: A Bloody Journey (2012) and Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction: An Historical Overview (2014).

Von der hinteren Coverseite

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 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)

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1349958840
ISBN 13 
9781349958849
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
280
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Yeepin GmbH
492000000000
sunshine12232@outlook.com

Alleestr.11
Kaiserslautern
Rheinland-Pfalz
67655
Deutschland

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9781137603104: Investigating Italy’s Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series: Murder in the Age of Chaos (Italian and Italian American Studies)

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  1137603100 ISBN 13:  9781137603104
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
Hardcover