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I'd like to add that the programme also features Charles Burdett and Ruth
Glynn of Bristol university.
Don't let the fact that it is scheduled opposite Agatha Christie's Marple
deter you all from tuning in.
Best wishes
Catherine
On Wed, December 22, 2010 8:23 pm, Federica Mazzara wrote:
> italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
>
> Colleagues with an interest in Modern Italian Crime Fiction may be
> interested in the documentary "Italian Noir", directed by Francis Welch,
> which will be broadcast on BBC4 on Tuesday, 27th December 2010 at 9.30pm.
> The film includes interviews with crime writers Andrea Camilleri,
> Giancarlo De Cataldo, Massimo Carlotto, Carlo Lucarelli, and Barbara
> Baraldi, and with Giuliana Pieri (Royal Holoway University London) and
> Florian Mussgnug (University College London). Please see details below.
>
> ******************************************
> TIMESHIFT: ITALIAN NOIR - The Story of Italian Crime Fiction
> BBC4, 27th December 2010, 9.30pm
>
> Timeshift profiles a new wave of Italian crime fiction that has emerged to
> challenge the conventions of the detective novel. There are no happy
> endings in these noir tales only revelations about Italy's dark heart, a
> world of corruption, unsolved murders and the mafia.
>
> Italian Noir features exclusive interviews with the leading writers
> from this new wave of noir including Andrea Camilleri (Inspector
> Montablano
> Mysteries) and serving Judge Giancarlo De Cataldo (Romanzo Criminale) who
> explains how his work as a real life investigating judge inspired his
> work. From the other side of the law, Massimo Carlotto talks about how his
> novels were shaped by his wrongful conviction for murder and years spent
> on the run from the police.
> The film also looks at the roots of this new wave. First Carlo Emilio
> Gadda (That Awful Mess) used the detective novel to expose the corruption
> that existed during Mussolini's fascist regime and then after the Second
> World War Leonardo Sciascia's crime novels (The Day of The Owl) tackled
> the rise of the Sicilian mafia. They established the rules of a new kind
> of noir that draws on real events and offers no neat endings.
>
> Shot on location in Rome, Bologna and Florence, the film also features
> Italian writers Carlo Lucarelli and Barbara Baraldi and uses rarely seen
> archive from Italian television.
>
> Produced and Directed by Francis Welch
>
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