Murder made in Italy homicide, media, and contemporary Italian culture / Ellen Nerenberg.

Author/creator Nerenberg, Ellen Victoria, 1962-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press,
Descriptionxiv, 384 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Contents Introduction: making a killing -- Serial killing. The "monster" of Florence: serial murders and investigation -- Monstrous murder: serial killers and detectives in contemporary Italian fiction -- "Penile" procedure: law and order in Dario Argento's cinema -- 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 -- The raw and the cooked: transnational media and violence in Italy's cannibal pulp fiction of the 1990s -- Filicide: the bad/mad mother of Cogne and violence against children. The yellow and the black: Cogne; or, crime of the century -- Spectacular grief and public mourning -- Unspeakable crimes: children as witnesses, victims, and perpetrators -- Epilogue: kiss me deadly.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [337]-360) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012005733
ISBN9780253356253 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780253223098 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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