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Investigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-349-94908-3

ISBN: 978-1-137-60310-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Sep 12, 2016

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Introduction

Pezzotti, Barbara

Pages: 1 –10

[Pezzotti explains that this volume intends to investigate Italian crime writers and directors’ attraction to history and the results of the encounter between crime and Italy’s past. She concentrates on crime fiction set during the Risorgimento, the Second World War (WWII), and the 1970s. She...
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The Foundation of the State: Giallo and the Risorgimento

Pezzotti, Barbara

Pages: 11 –62

[In this chapter, Pezzotti analyzes Italian crime fiction (giallo) set during the Risorgimento, the historical period (1815–1870) that brought to the unification of Italy. She shows how its representation in recent crime fiction is twofold: by tackling troubled relationship between North and...
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The Giallo and the Black: The Representation of Fascism and WWII Between Revisionism and Criticism

Pezzotti, Barbara

Pages: 63 –168

[By reflecting the revisionist historical and political debate of the 1980s and 1990s in Italy, this chapter highlights how crime writers who have set their stories during Fascism and WWII have represented a variety of perspectives that range from the problematic representation of the “good...
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The Giallo and Terrorism: The Years of Lead and the Conspiracy Theory

Pezzotti, Barbara

Pages: 169 –235

[This chapter analyzes crime and spy stories set during the terrorism era of the 1970s that is the Years of Lead. Pezzotti argues that this renewed interest for this dark period of Italian history has been spurred by a post-11 September climate. In general, the conspiracy theme in these novels...
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Conclusions

Pezzotti, Barbara

Pages: 237 –242

[Pezzotti concludes that in the Italian crime fiction output, there is not a univocal response to political and social debates about Italian history. Indeed, it hosts a variety of interpretations, showing the presence of diametrically opposed memories that make Italian history still very present....

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