Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Italy and the MilitarySoldiers for the Mob: The Military as Metaphor for Italian Organized Crime

Italy and the Military: Soldiers for the Mob: The Military as Metaphor for Italian Organized Crime [Rebecca Bauman explores one of the most cinematized forms of Italian criminal institutions, the Mafia, and its engagement with the military. As she notices, for the past century, military terminology has been increasingly used in the Italian media to describe the Sicilian Mafia, the Neapolitan Camorra, and other organized crime groups in Italy—a linguistic practice that helps shape public perception of such groups by referring to them in terms that seemingly justify the use of violence in illegal forms. Bauman then investigates how the popular usage of terms such as “soldier,” “combatants,” “armies,” and, most notably, “war” have become commonplace in representations of Italian organized crime, including journalistic accounts but also in the narrativization of military metaphors in film and television series, including Gomorra—la serie (Sky, 2014–present) and Marco Tullio Giordana’s film Due Soldati (2017). In so doing, she demonstrates how the adoption of military metaphors has problematized anti-mafia rhetoric and has become an instrument for normalizing Italian culture’s continuous, problematic fascination with organized crime.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Italy and the MilitarySoldiers for the Mob: The Military as Metaphor for Italian Organized Crime

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series
Editors: Roveri, Mattia
Bauman, Rebecca
Italy and the Military — Dec 23, 2020
Download PDF
15 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/springer-journals/italy-and-the-military-soldiers-for-the-mob-the-military-as-metaphor-qiSUb0M2mt

References (0)

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-57160-3
Pages
331 –346
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-57161-0_15
Publisher site
See Chapter on Publisher Site

Abstract

[Rebecca Bauman explores one of the most cinematized forms of Italian criminal institutions, the Mafia, and its engagement with the military. As she notices, for the past century, military terminology has been increasingly used in the Italian media to describe the Sicilian Mafia, the Neapolitan Camorra, and other organized crime groups in Italy—a linguistic practice that helps shape public perception of such groups by referring to them in terms that seemingly justify the use of violence in illegal forms. Bauman then investigates how the popular usage of terms such as “soldier,” “combatants,” “armies,” and, most notably, “war” have become commonplace in representations of Italian organized crime, including journalistic accounts but also in the narrativization of military metaphors in film and television series, including Gomorra—la serie (Sky, 2014–present) and Marco Tullio Giordana’s film Due Soldati (2017). In so doing, she demonstrates how the adoption of military metaphors has problematized anti-mafia rhetoric and has become an instrument for normalizing Italian culture’s continuous, problematic fascination with organized crime.]

Published: Dec 23, 2020

There are no references for this article.