Watching Sympathetic Perpetrators on Italian Television Gomorrah and Beyond /

• Main Author: Renga, Dana (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Motion pictures and television.; Ethnology-Europe.; Screen Studies.; European Culture.

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 positione...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Sympathetic Serial Offenders
• 2. Rai: "Educate while entertaining - entertain while educating" in L'ultimo dei Corleonesi, "Niente di personale," and Il segreto dell'acqua
• 3. Mediaset's Middlebrow Model: Il capo dei capi, L'ultimo padrino, Il clan dei camorristi, and L'onore e il rispetto
• 4. Sky's Offer You Can't Refuse and Romanzo criminale. La serie's Criminal Payoffs
• 5. Faccia d'angelo: "The Allure of Evil"
• 6. 1992 and 1993's 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.