The Moro morality play
Subtitle: terrorism as social drama
By: Robin Erica Wagner-Pacifici.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Moro, Aldo, 1916-1978 -- Kidnapping, 1978.; Terrorism in mass media.; Terrorism -- Italy.; Mass media -- Social aspects -- Italy.; Mass media -- Political aspects -- Italy.; Italy -- Politics and government -- 1976-1994.
Description: "On March 16, 1978, the former prime minister of Italy, Aldo Moro, was kidnapped by the Red Brigades, and what followed--the fifty-five days of captivity that resulted in Moro's murder--constitutes one of the most striking social dramas of the twentieth century. In this compelling study of terrorism, Robin Wagner-Pacifici employs methods from sociology, symbolic anthropology, and literary criticism to decode the many social "texts" that shaped the event: political speeches, newspaper reports, television and radio news, editorials, photographs, Moro's letters, Red Brigade communiques, and appeals by various international figures. The analysis of these "texts" calls into question the function of politics, social drama, spectacle, and theater. Wagner-Pacifici provides a dramaturgic analysis of the Moro affair as a method for discussing the culture of politics in Italy."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Bibliography: p.[339]-348.
Includes index.