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

by Antonello,Pierpaolo

• ISBN13: 9781906540487
• ISBN10: 1906540489
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781351563161
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-01
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Pierpaolo Antonello is senior lecture in Italian at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St. John's College. Alan O'Leary is lecturer in Italian in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Leeds.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Narrative Models of Political Violence
Killing the Father: Politics and Intellectuals, Utopia and Disillusion	p. 16
Narratives of Sacrifice: Pasolini and Moro	p. 30
Moro, Brescia, Conspiracy: The Paranoid Style in Italian Cinema	p. 48
Through the Lens of Trauma: The Figure of the Female Terrorist in II prigioniero and Buongiorno, notte	p. 63
Genres of Terror
Television and Terrorism in Italy: Sergio Zavoli's La notte della repubblica	p. 77
Screening Terror: Political Terrorism in Italian Cinema	p. 88
Lo stupro by Franca Rame: Political Violence and Political Theatre	p. 101
The Rhetoric of Violence
The Rule of Which Law? The Use of Legal Language in the Rhetoric of the anni di piombo	p. 116
A (Conceptual) History of Violence: The Case of the Italian Extreme Left in the 1970s	p. 128
Narrative Models of Political Violence: Vicarious Experience and 'Violentization' in 1970s Italy	p. 139
The Memory of Events
Contested Memories: Milan and Piazza Fontana	p. 153
Memorialization without Memory: The Case of Aldo Moro	p. 168
Political Violence, stragismo and 'Civil War': An Analysis of the Self-Narratives of Three Neofascist Protagonists	p. 183
Self-Narratives of the anni di piombo: Testimonies of the Political Exiles in France	p. 200
Index	p. 221
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