The Moro Morality Play: Terrorism as Social Drama - Couverture souple

Wagner-Pacifici, Robin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226869849 ISBN 13 : 9780226869841

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1986

Synopsis

On March 16, 1978, the former prime minister of Italy, Aldo Moro, was kidnapped by the Red Brigades, and what followed—the fifty-five days of captivity that resulted in Moro's murder—constitutes one of the most striking social dramas of the twentieth century. In this compelling study of terrorism, Robin Wagner-Pacifici employs methods from sociology, symbolic anthropology, and literary criticism to decode the many social "texts" that shaped the event: political speeches, newspaper reports, television and radio news, editorials, photographs, Moro's letters, Red Brigade communiques, and appeals by various international figures. The analysis of these "texts" calls into question the function of politics, social drama, spectacle, and theater. Wagner-Pacifici provides a dramaturgic analysis of the Moro affair as a method for discussing the culture of politics in Italy.

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À propos de l'auteur

Robin Wagner-Pacifici is the University in Exile Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of many books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226869849
• ISBN 13: 9780226869841
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 374
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible