Watching Sympathetic Perpetrators on Italian Television

Dana Renga is Associate Professor of Italian at The Ohio State University, USA. She is the author of Unfinished Business: Screening the Italian Mafia in the New Millennium (2013), the editor of Mafia Movies: A Reader (2011), and has published extensively on Italian cinema and television.

• 1. Introduction: Sympathetic Serial Offenders.- 2. Rai: “Educate while entertaining – entertain while educating” in L’ultimo dei Corleonesi, “Niente di personale,” and Il segreto dell’acqua.- 3. Mediaset’s Middlebrow Model: Il capo dei capi, L’ultimo padrino, Il clan dei camorristi, and L’onore e il rispetto.- 4. Sky’s Offer You Can’t Refuse and Romanzo criminale. La serie’s Criminal Payoffs.- 5. Faccia d’angelo: “The Allure of Evil”.- 6. 1992 and 1993’s Difficult Masculinities.- 7. Making Men in Gomorrah 1 and Gomorrah 2.- 8. #ciaonetflix: Suburra. La serie as “International Patrimony”.- 9. Conclusions: Gomorrah 3 and Italian Television Abroad.