italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Dear Catherine,
thanks for the information, I didn't know.
My best wishes for a very merry Christmas to you all!
Federica
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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
>>
>> *************************************************************
>>
>>
>>
>> Dr Federica Mazzara
>> Teaching Fellow
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>> UCL
>> Department of Italian/SELCS
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Dr Federica Mazzara
Teaching Fellow
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UCL
Department of Italian/SELCS
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Gower St
London WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
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