Titlebook: Investigating Italy‘s Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series; Murder in the Age of Barbara Pezzotti Book 2016 The Edit

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The Foundation of the State: , and the Risorgimento,l becomes a meditation about a new Italian identity that is respectful of cultural differences. On the opposite end of the spectrum, some other novels are a hymn to an alleged Northerner cleverness and moral superiority.

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Introduction,ularly relevant to her discourse. She states that the aim of this volume is to find out if Italian writers and film directors use the historical setting simply as a backdrop for their stories or, rather, they weave it into the very fabric of their works turning the storytelling into a more general investigation into history and society.

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The , and the Black: The Representation of Fascism and WWII Between Revisionism and Criticism,ime that killed freedom of expression in Italy. It also analyzes several film adaptations of historical crime novels. It shows how, for being meant to a more general audience and for its almost symbiotic relationship with political parties, the TV medium in Italy offers a more superficial representation of important topics related to fascism.

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Conclusions,y and its flaws. Using tropes of crime fiction, the Italian . re-examines historical events, giving new interpretations or reiterating historical interpretations attacked by a mounting revisionism. In so doing, it also recuperates awareness and fights a general amnesia on some of the most pivotal period of Italy’s recent history.

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Introduction,between crime and Italy’s past. She concentrates on crime fiction set during the Risorgimento, the Second World War (WWII), and the 1970s. She focuses on the new Italian crime fiction (or .) wave of the 1990s and 2000s, with excursions in the previous decades in order to tackle works that are partic

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The , and the Black: The Representation of Fascism and WWII Between Revisionism and Criticism,their stories during Fascism and WWII have represented a variety of perspectives that range from the problematic representation of the “good fascist,” to the stigmatization of the ambivalent attitudes of many Italians who survived during Fascism without taking sides, to an open condemnation of a reg

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The , and Terrorism: The Years of Lead and the Conspiracy Theory,erest for this dark period of Italian history has been spurred by a post-11 September climate. In general, the conspiracy theme in these novels responds to a need of providing a counter-history against the official history that has never been able to satisfactorily explain some pivotal events in Ita

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Conclusions,ndeed, it hosts a variety of interpretations, showing the presence of diametrically opposed memories that make Italian history still very present. With few exceptions, history is in the foreground of the story, and the investigation into a single case often enlarges into an investigation into histor