Murder made in Italy : homicide, media, and contemporary Italian culture : Nerenberg, Ellen Victoria, 1962- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (original) (raw)

xiv, 384 p. : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-360) and index

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