Imagining Terrorism : The Rhetoric and Representation of Political Violence in Italy 1969-2009

ISBN-13: 9781906540487 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 227 str.

P (Ed) Antonello

Opis

No other European country experienced the disruption of political and everyday life suffered by Italy in the so-called 'years of lead' (1969-c.1983), when there were more than 12,000 incidents of terrorist violence. This experience affected all aspects of Italian cultural life, shaping political, judicial and everyday language as well as artistic representation of every kind. In this innovative and broad-ranging study, experts from the fields of philosophy, history, media, law, cinema, theatre and literary studies trace how the experience and legacies of terrorism have determined the form and content of Italian cultural production and shaped the country's way of thinking about such events?

Spis treści

Introduction Part I: Narrative Models of Political Violence 1. Killing the Father: Politics and Intellectuals, Utopia and Disillusion 2. Narratives of Sacrifice: Pasolini and Moro 3. Moro, Brescia, Conspiracy: The Paranoid Style in Italian Cinema 4. Through the Lens of Trauma: The Figure of the Female Terrorist in Il prigioniero and Buongiorno, notte Part II: Genres of Terror 5. Television and Terrorism in Italy: Sergio Zavoli’s La notte della repubblica 6. Screening Terror: Political Terrorism in Italian Cinema 7. Lo stupro by Franca Rame: Political Violence and Political Theatre Part III: The Rhetoric of Violence 8. The Rule of Which Law? The Use of Legal Language in the Rhetoric of the anni di piombo 9. A (Conceptual) History of Violence: The Case of the Italian Extreme Left in the 1970s 10. Narrative Models of Political Violence: Vicarious Experience and ‘Violentization’ in 1970s Italy 11. Contested Memories: Milan and Piazza Fontana 12. Memorialization without Memory: The Case of Aldo Moro 13. Political Violence, stragismo and ‘Civil War’: An Analysis of the Self-Narratives of Three Neofascist Protagonists 14. Self-Narratives of the anni di piombo: Testimonies of the Political Exiles in France

O autorze

Pierpaolo Antonello