Watching Sympathetic Perpetrators on Italian Television : Gomorrah and Beyond / by Dana Renga.
Renga, Dana.
2019
PN1992.63
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Title Watching Sympathetic Perpetrators on Italian Television : Gomorrah and Beyond / by Dana Renga.
Author Renga, Dana.
ISBN 9783030115036
3030115038
303011502X
9783030115029
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2019 : Imprint Palgrave Macmillan.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (XV, 334 pages 22 illustrations, 21 illustrations in color.) : online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-11
Call Number PN1992.63
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.4
Summary This book offers the first comprehensive study of recent, popular Italian television. Building on work in American television studies, audience and reception theory, and masculinity studies, Sympathetic Perpetrators and their Audiences on Italian Television examines how and why viewers are positioned to engage emotionally with--and root for--Italian television antiheroes. Italys most popular exported series feature alluring and attractive criminal antiheroes, offer fictionalized accounts of historical events or figures, and highlight the routine violence of daily life in the mafia, the police force, and the political sphere. Renga argues that Italian broadcasters have made an international name for themselves by presenting dark and violent subjects in formats that are visually pleasurable and, for many across the globe, highly addictive. Taken as a whole, this book investigates what recent Italian perpetrator television can teach us about television audiences, and our viewing habits and preferences.
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1. Introduction: Sympathetic Serial Offenders
2. Rai: "Educate while entertaining
entertain while educating" in Lultimo dei Corleonesi, "Niente di personale," and Il segreto dellacqua
3. Mediasets Middlebrow Model: Il capo dei capi, Lultimo padrino, Il clan dei camorristi, and Lonore e il rispetto
4. Skys Offer You Cant Refuse and Romanzo criminale. La series Criminal Payoffs
5. Faccia dangelo: "The Allure of Evil"
6. 1992 and 1993s Difficult Masculinities
7. Making Men in Gomorrah 1 and Gomorrah 2
8. #ciaonetflix: Suburra. La serie as "International Patrimony"
9. Conclusions: Gomorrah 3 and Italian Television Abroad.

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