Murder made in Italy
Subtitle: homicide, media, and contemporary Italian culture
By: Ellen Nerenberg
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780253356253; 9780253223098
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; Mass media and criminal justice; Objectivity; Murder in mass media; Mass media
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: making a killing; title: Serial killing. The "monster" of Florence: serial murders and investigation; title: Monstrous murder: serial killers and detectives in contemporary Italian fiction; title: "Penile" procedure: law and order in Dario Argento's cinema; title: Matricide and fratricide: Erika, Omar, and violent youth in Italy. Sono stati loro: Erika, Omar, and the double homicide of Susy Cassini and Gianluca de Nardo in Novi Ligure; title: The raw and the cooked: transnational media and violence in Italy's cannibal pulp fiction of the 1990s; title: Filicide: the bad/mad mother of Cogne and violence against children. The yellow and the black: Cogne; or, crime of the century; title: Spectacular grief and public mourning; title: Unspeakable crimes: children as witnesses, victims, and perpetrators; title: Epilogue: kiss me deadly.