Murder and Media in the New Rome
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Murder and Media in the New Rome

The Fadda Affair

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eBook - PDF

Murder and Media in the New Rome

The Fadda Affair

About this book

Aninsightful look into the origins of modern Italian media culture by examining a sensational crime and trial that took place in Rome in the late 1870s, when a bloody murder triggered a national spectacle that became the first great media circus in the new nation of Italy, crucially shaping the young state's public sphere and image of itself.

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Information

Year
2010
Print ISBN
9780230108363
eBook ISBN
9780230116535

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 The Crime and Its Coverage
  7. 2 Journalism in Rome after National Unification
  8. 3 Chronology of a Circus Trial
  9. 4 The People, the Killer, and the Weeping Widow
  10. 5 In Corte d’Assise
  11. 6 King and Quartermaster: The Battles of San Martino
  12. 7 “To Liberate Italy from the Italians”
  13. 8 Poor Giovanni Fadda
  14. 9 A New War Experiment
  15. 10 Characters
  16. 11 Conclusion
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index