Murder made in Italy : homicide, media, and contemporary Italian culture / Ellen Nerenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nerenberg, Ellen Victoria, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murder in mass media--Italy.

Murder in mass media.

Mass media and criminal justice--Italy.

Mass media and criminal justice.

Mass media--Social aspects--Italy.

Mass media.

Mass media--Social aspects.

Mass media--Objectivity.

Italy.

Mass media--Objectivity--Italy.

Criminal justice, Administration of--Italy.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

xiv, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]

Summary:

Looking at media coverage of three earlier, 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, its welfare state and savage youth culture, 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 spectacle, true crime writing, and the abject body. 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

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 1990s

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253356253

0253356253

9780253223098

0253223091

OCLC:

663954305