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9780230108363

Murder and Media in the New Rome The Fadda Affair

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230108363

  • ISBN10:

    0230108369

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-11-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This book provides an insightful look into the origins of modern Italian media culture by examining a sensational crime and trial that took place in Rome in the late 1870s, when a bloody murder triggered a national spectacle that became the first great "media circus" in the new nation of Italy, crucially shaping the young state's public sphere and image of itself. The value of the Fadda Case resides in its messiness and its resistance to demonstrating any simple historical formula, as well as its intimation of the postmodern centrality of performance and the displacement of substance by sensation.

Author Biography

Tom Simpson is Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Italian at Northwestern University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrationsp. ix
Acknowledgmentsp. xi
Introductionp. 1
The Crime and Its Coveragep. 9
Journalism in Rome after National Unificationp. 27
Chronology of a Circus Trialp. 55
The People, the Killer, and the Weeping Widowp. 69
In Corte d'Assisep. 97
King and Quartermaster: The Battles of San Martinop. 117
"To Liberate Italy from the Italians"p. 133
Poor Giovanni Faddap. 149
A New War Experimentp. 171
Charactersp. 183
Conclusionp. 205
Notesp. 209
Bibliographyp. 235
Indexp. 255
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