Imagining Terrorism

Pierpaolo Antonello

• Introduction Part I: Narrative Models of Political Violence 1. Killing the Father: Politics and Intellectuals, Utopia and Disillusion 2. Narratives of Sacrifice: Pasolini and Moro 3. Moro, Brescia, Conspiracy: The Paranoid Style in Italian Cinema 4. Through the Lens of Trauma: The Figure of the Female Terrorist in Il prigioniero and Buongiorno, notte Part II: Genres of Terror 5. Television and Terrorism in Italy: Sergio Zavoli’s La notte della repubblica 6. Screening Terror: Political Terrorism in Italian Cinema 7. Lo stupro by Franca Rame: Political Violence and Political Theatre Part III: The Rhetoric of Violence 8. The Rule of Which Law? The Use of Legal Language in the Rhetoric of the anni di piombo 9. A (Conceptual) History of Violence: The Case of the Italian Extreme Left in the 1970s 10. Narrative Models of Political Violence: Vicarious Experience and ‘Violentization’ in 1970s Italy 11. Contested Memories: Milan and Piazza Fontana 12. Memorialization without Memory: The Case of Aldo Moro 13. Political Violence, stragismo and ‘Civil War’: An Analysis of the Self-Narratives of Three Neofascist Protagonists 14. Self-Narratives of the anni di piombo: Testimonies of the Political Exiles in France