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Pezzotti explains that this volume intends to investigate Italian crime writers and directors’ attraction to history and the results of the encounter between crime and Italy’s past. She concentrates on crime fiction set during the Risorgimento, the Second World War (WWII), and the 1970s. She focuses on the new Italian crime fiction (or giallo) wave of the 1990s and 2000s, with excursions in the previous decades in order to tackle works that are particularly relevant to her discourse. She states that the aim of this volume is to find out if Italian writers and film directors use the historical setting simply as a backdrop for their stories or, rather, they weave it into the very fabric of their works turning the storytelling into a more general investigation into history and society.
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Pezzotti, B. (2016). Introduction. In: Investigating Italy's Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series. Italian and Italian American Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94908-3_1
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