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Murder made in Italy : homicide, media, and contemporary Italian culture
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- ISBN: 9780253356253 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780253223098 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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xiv, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm - Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | Murder in mass media Italy Mass media and criminal justice Italy Mass media Social aspects Italy Mass media Objectivity Italy Criminal justice, Administration of Italy |