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The Moro Morality Play: Terrorism as Social Drama
University of Chicago Press, 1986 Cloth: 978-0-226-86983-4 | Paper: 978-0-226-86984-1 Library of Congress Classification P96.T472I88 1986 Dewey Decimal Classification 303.6250945
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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. See other books on: 1976-1994 | Kidnapping | Mass media | Terrorism | Wagner-Pacifici, Robin See other titles from University of Chicago Press |
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The Moro Morality Play: Terrorism as Social Drama
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University of Chicago Press, 1986
Cloth: 978-0-226-86983-4
Paper: 978-0-226-86984-1
Cloth: 978-0-226-86983-4
Paper: 978-0-226-86984-1
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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