Murder Made in Italy: Homicide, Media, and Contemporary Italian Culture - Hardcover

Ellen Nerenberg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253356253 ISBN 13: 9780253356253

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2012

Synopsis

The conviction in an Italian court of Amanda Knox, an American student accused of murder, once more drew attention to crime and punishment in Italy. 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.

About this title

Review:

"Original, engaging, and thought-provoking... quite unlike any other existing book in Italian cultural and media studies." Ruth Glynn, University of Bristol "A fantastic array of literary, cinematic, and oral narratives." --Stefania Lucamante, Catholic University of America

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0253356253
• ISBN 13: 9780253356253
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384