A serial distrust: conspiracy and blame in the Italian poliziottesco and news media

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Autor(a) principal: Olesen, Giulio Balslev
Data de Publicação: 2023
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34623/k3v7-2z03
Resumo: TThe article explores the poliziottesco (Italian Cop Thrillers) to document its contribution to the national debate on political, criminal and institutional violence in the early 1970s. It investigates the representation of the police and the judiciary in films with state-driven conspiracies at the centre of their plots. The article interrogates the possibility of using these films as historical documents by connecting them to news media discourses around the so-called strategia della tensione (strategy of tension), a series of terrorist attacks aiming at artificially raising political tension in Italy. Positioning the films as intermedial texts (Rajewsky, 2005), it is possible to identify shared representational and interpretative strategies between the seriality of Italian newspapers and that of these low-budget and fast-produced genre products. The use of news media as devices and news media narratives in the films allows them to intercept both the trauma related to the outcomes of terrorist attacks and the rage for the lack of effective state action. This approach sheds a new light onto often critically dismissed products and aims at situating them as a place of negotiation for the attribution of blame for the failures of the Italian state in the struggle against political violence.
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spelling A serial distrust: conspiracy and blame in the Italian poliziottesco and news mediaEstado de desconfiança. Violência, aplicação da lei e conspirações no poliziottesco italianoA serial distrust: conspiracy and blame in the Italian poliziottesco and news mediaA serial distrust: conspiracy and blame in the Italian poliziottesco and news mediapoliziottescoItalian cinemanews mediastrategia della tensioneterrorismpoliziottescoItalian cinemanews mediastrategia della tensioneterrorismpoliziottescoItalian cinemanews mediastrategia della tensioneterrorismpoliziottescocinema italianomeios de comunicação socialstrategia della tensioneterrorismoTThe article explores the poliziottesco (Italian Cop Thrillers) to document its contribution to the national debate on political, criminal and institutional violence in the early 1970s. It investigates the representation of the police and the judiciary in films with state-driven conspiracies at the centre of their plots. The article interrogates the possibility of using these films as historical documents by connecting them to news media discourses around the so-called strategia della tensione (strategy of tension), a series of terrorist attacks aiming at artificially raising political tension in Italy. Positioning the films as intermedial texts (Rajewsky, 2005), it is possible to identify shared representational and interpretative strategies between the seriality of Italian newspapers and that of these low-budget and fast-produced genre products. The use of news media as devices and news media narratives in the films allows them to intercept both the trauma related to the outcomes of terrorist attacks and the rage for the lack of effective state action. This approach sheds a new light onto often critically dismissed products and aims at situating them as a place of negotiation for the attribution of blame for the failures of the Italian state in the struggle against political violence.Este artigo explora o filone do poliziottesco (thril­lers policiais italianos) para documentar sua contribuição para o debate nacional sobre violência política, criminal e institucional no início da década de 1970. Investiga a representação da polícia e do poder judicial em filmes que apresentam conspirações dirigidas pelo Estado no centro das suas tramas – Esquadrão de Execução (Vanzina 1972), Profissionais Violentos (Martino 1973), Policial Assassino (Ercoli 1975), Ação Silenciosa (Martino 1975). Abordando os debates em curso sobre o cinema popular (filone) italiano (Fisher 2014, 2019; Marlow-Mann 2013; O’Leary 2011), este artigo questiona a possibilidade de usar esses filmes como documentos históricos, conectando-os aos discursos da mídia em torno da chamada estratégia de tensão, uma série de ataques terroristas com o objetivo de aumentar artificialmente a tensão política na Itália. Posicionando os filmes como textos intermediários (Rajewski 2005), é possível identificar estratégias representacionais e interpretativas compartilhadas entre a serialidade dos jornais italianos e a desses produtos de género de baixo orçamento e produção rápida. O uso dos meios de comunicação como dispositivos e a reelaboração das narrativas dos meios de comunicação nos filmes inserem-nos num “ritual político” (Elliot, 1981) elaborando tanto o trauma relacionado com os resultados dos ataques terroristas como a raiva pela falta de ação eficaz do Estado contra eles. Esta abordagem lança uma nova luz sobre produtos muitas vezes rejeitados pela crítica, indo além de interpretações que se concentraram principalmente na natureza derivada dos filmes de género italianos. Em vez disso, pretende situá-los como um lugar de negociação para a atribuição de culpas pelas falhas do Estado italiano na luta contra o terrorismo.The article explores the poliziottesco (Italian Cop Thrillers) to document its contribution to the national debate on political, criminal and institutional violence in the early 1970s. It investigates the representation of the police and the judiciary in films with state-driven conspiracies at the centre of their plots. The article interrogates the possibility of using these films as historical documents by connecting them to news media discourses around the so-called strategia della tensione (strategy of tension), a series of terrorist attacks aiming at artificially raising political tension in Italy. Positioning the films as intermedial texts (Rajewsky, 2005), it is possible to identify shared representational and interpretative strategies between the seriality of Italian newspapers and that of these low-budget and fast-produced genre products. The use of news media as devices and news media narratives in the films allows them to intercept both the trauma related to the outcomes of terrorist attacks and the rage for the lack of effective state action. This approach sheds a new light onto often critically dismissed products and aims at situating them as a place of negotiation for the attribution of blame for the failures of the Italian state in the struggle against political violence.The article explores the poliziottesco (Italian Cop Thrillers) to document its contribution to the national debate on political, criminal and institutional violence in the early 1970s. It investigates the representation of the police and the judiciary in films with state-driven conspiracies at the centre of their plots. The article interrogates the possibility of using these films as historical documents by connecting them to news media discourses around the so-called strategia della tensione (strategy of tension), a series of terrorist attacks aiming at artificially raising political tension in Italy. Positioning the films as intermedial texts (Rajewsky, 2005), it is possible to identify shared representational and interpretative strategies between the seriality of Italian newspapers and that of these low-budget and fast-produced genre products. The use of news media as devices and news media narratives in the films allows them to intercept both the trauma related to the outcomes of terrorist attacks and the rage for the lack of effective state action. This approach sheds a new light onto often critically dismissed products and aims at situating them as a place of negotiation for the attribution of blame for the failures of the Italian state in the struggle against political violence.CIAC – Centro de Investigação em Artes e Comunicação2023-09-21info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfapplication/epub+ziphttps://doi.org/10.34623/k3v7-2z03https://doi.org/10.34623/k3v7-2z03Rotura – Revista de Comunicação, Cultura e Artes; v. 3 n. 2 (2023): Cinemas do Mediterrâneo; 12-272184-8661reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPenghttps://publicacoes.ciac.pt/index.php/rotura/article/view/181https://publicacoes.ciac.pt/index.php/rotura/article/view/181/149https://publicacoes.ciac.pt/index.php/rotura/article/view/181/159Direitos de Autor (c) 2023 Giulio Oleseninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessOlesen, Giulio Balslev2023-12-05T04:00:34Zoai:ojs.publicacoes.ciac.pt:article/181Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T20:31:05.708692Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A serial distrust: conspiracy and blame in the Italian poliziottesco and news media
Estado de desconfiança. Violência, aplicação da lei e conspirações no poliziottesco italiano
A serial distrust: conspiracy and blame in the Italian poliziottesco and news media
A serial distrust: conspiracy and blame in the Italian poliziottesco and news media
title A serial distrust: conspiracy and blame in the Italian poliziottesco and news media
spellingShingle A serial distrust: conspiracy and blame in the Italian poliziottesco and news media
Olesen, Giulio Balslev
poliziottesco
Italian cinema
news media
strategia della tensione
terrorism
poliziottesco
Italian cinema
news media
strategia della tensione
terrorism
poliziottesco
Italian cinema
news media
strategia della tensione
terrorism
poliziottesco
cinema italiano
meios de comunicação social
strategia della tensione
terrorismo
title_short A serial distrust: conspiracy and blame in the Italian poliziottesco and news media
title_full A serial distrust: conspiracy and blame in the Italian poliziottesco and news media
title_fullStr A serial distrust: conspiracy and blame in the Italian poliziottesco and news media
title_full_unstemmed A serial distrust: conspiracy and blame in the Italian poliziottesco and news media
title_sort A serial distrust: conspiracy and blame in the Italian poliziottesco and news media
author Olesen, Giulio Balslev
author_facet Olesen, Giulio Balslev
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Olesen, Giulio Balslev
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv poliziottesco
Italian cinema
news media
strategia della tensione
terrorism
poliziottesco
Italian cinema
news media
strategia della tensione
terrorism
poliziottesco
Italian cinema
news media
strategia della tensione
terrorism
poliziottesco
cinema italiano
meios de comunicação social
strategia della tensione
terrorismo
topic poliziottesco
Italian cinema
news media
strategia della tensione
terrorism
poliziottesco
Italian cinema
news media
strategia della tensione
terrorism
poliziottesco
Italian cinema
news media
strategia della tensione
terrorism
poliziottesco
cinema italiano
meios de comunicação social
strategia della tensione
terrorismo
description TThe article explores the poliziottesco (Italian Cop Thrillers) to document its contribution to the national debate on political, criminal and institutional violence in the early 1970s. It investigates the representation of the police and the judiciary in films with state-driven conspiracies at the centre of their plots. The article interrogates the possibility of using these films as historical documents by connecting them to news media discourses around the so-called strategia della tensione (strategy of tension), a series of terrorist attacks aiming at artificially raising political tension in Italy. Positioning the films as intermedial texts (Rajewsky, 2005), it is possible to identify shared representational and interpretative strategies between the seriality of Italian newspapers and that of these low-budget and fast-produced genre products. The use of news media as devices and news media narratives in the films allows them to intercept both the trauma related to the outcomes of terrorist attacks and the rage for the lack of effective state action. This approach sheds a new light onto often critically dismissed products and aims at situating them as a place of negotiation for the attribution of blame for the failures of the Italian state in the struggle against political violence.
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