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Giorgio Scerbanenco
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Urban Space, Violence and Gender Identity in Post-War Italian Crime Fiction
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Artikel-Nr:
9782875743299
Veröffentl:
2016
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
23.02.2016
Seiten:
242
Autor:
Marco Paoli
Gewicht:
338 g
Format:
220x150x14 mm
Serie:
8, Moving Texts / Testi mobili
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Dr Marco Paoli is a lecturer in Italian Studies and Head of Italian at the University of Liverpool. His main areas of research are Italian crime fiction and Italian cinema. He is particularly interested in the Italian economic miracle and its influence on crime as reflected in Italian literature and cinema of the post war period. He has published studies on, among others, Carlo Lizzani, Fernando Di Leo, Paolo Virzì and Giorgio Scerbanenco.
The works of Giorgio Scerbanenco repeatedly articulate and explore the implications of new forms of criminality that emerged in Italy's post-war transformation towards its "economic miracle". An indepth analysis of Scerbanenco's Duca Lamberti series constitutes the critical focus of this study, and in particular the psychological resonances of the role played by the author's controversial representation of the urban space, its violence, (in)justice and gender roles. In what way do these elements heighten and/or exaggerate the nature of the criminal acts and the reader's experience? This study therefore investigates a reader's potential response to the content, the settings, and, above all, the characters Scerbanenco portrays in these four novels.
This book discusses Giorgio Scerbanenco's representation of criminal environments in his Duca Lamberti series (1966-69), focusing in particular on three innovative aspects characterising Italian crime fiction in the 1960s: Scerbanenco's portrayal of the urban space, violence and gender and its cognitive and emotional impact on the reader.
Contents: Cecilia Scerbanenco: Preface - Introduction: Crime Fiction and the Question of Literary Genre - Italian Crime Fiction from its Origins to the 1960s - Giorgio Scerbanenco: From giallo to noir - The Arthur Jelling series - Evolution of Crime in Italy's Post-war Period - Urban Environments and Crime: Criminal Metamorphoses in the Urban Space Urban Space through Symbols - Violence, Justice and Moral (Dis)Orientation: Violence as a Principle for Moral Evaluation - Moral (Dis)Orientation: The Justifiable Act of Violence - Female Characters and Gender Identity: Controlled Unconventional Female Characters - The Economic Miracle: a Collective Cultural Trauma.