This book traces how the experience and legacies of terrorism have determined the form and content of Italian cultural production. It helps to understand how political violence was expressed, symbolized and analysed at different rhetorical, philosophical and linguistic levels.
Introduction Part I: Narrative Models of Political Violence
1. Killing
the Father: Politics and Intellectuals, Utopia and Disillusion
2. Narratives
of Sacrifice: Pasolini and Moro
3. Moro, Brescia, Conspiracy: The Paranoid
Style in Italian Cinema
4. Through the Lens of Trauma: The Figure of the
Female Terrorist in Il prigioniero and Buongiorno, notte Part II: Genres of
Terror
5. Television and Terrorism in Italy: Sergio Zavolis La notte della
repubblica
6. Screening Terror: Political Terrorism in Italian Cinema
7. Lo
stupro by Franca Rame: Political Violence and Political Theatre Part III: The
Rhetoric of Violence
8. The Rule of Which Law? The Use of Legal Language in
the Rhetoric of the anni di piombo
9. A (Conceptual) History of Violence: The
Case of the Italian Extreme Left in the 1970s
10. Narrative Models of
Political Violence: Vicarious Experience and Violentization in 1970s Italy
11. Contested Memories: Milan and Piazza Fontana
12. Memorialization without
Memory: The Case of Aldo Moro
13. Political Violence, stragismo and Civil
War: An Analysis of the Self-Narratives of Three Neofascist Protagonists
14.
Self-Narratives of the anni di piombo: Testimonies of the Political Exiles in
France
Pierpaolo Antonello
