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Book 2019ception theory, and masculinity studies, .Sympathetic Perpetrators and their Audiences on Italian Television. examines how and why viewers are positioned to engage emotionally with—and root for—Italian television antiheroes. Italy’s most popular exported series feature alluring and attractive crimin

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