Description
Book SynopsisAnalyses questions of cultural violence
Trade Review[T]his book provides food for thought for those studying Italy from a wide variety of perspectives.
* Contemporary Italian Politics *
Nerenberg's study represents a useful tool for the reading of contemporary Italy crimes from a cultural studies perspective.
* H-Italy *
Table of ContentsPreface
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
