Tag: Carcere e Arte

“Puramente casuale”: Italian Prison Films and the 1975 Carceral Reform

Author di Matteo Brera

Films are privileged, albeit not highly scientific, media through which the public’s ideas “about the nature of crime” are shaped, and perceptions of audiences on crime and its ‘mechanics’ are altered by mediatised images of criminal activities and their impact on society[1]. This is the consequence of what Surette calls “the social construction of reality”[2]; indeed, according to the American penologist, when studying the intertwining of crime, criminal justice and the media, people obtain knowledge from the fictional picture of the world that media elaborate and propose to them. Their acts thus tend to be based on these artificial representations)[3].

Continua a leggere “Puramente casuale”: Italian Prison Films and the 1975 Carceral Reform

(fasc. 52, 31 luglio 2024)

“Dentro il carcere”. Interviews with Mary Gibson, Patrizio Gonnella, Amir Issaa, Dacia Maraini and Maria Giustina Laurenzi on Imprisonment

Author di Elena Bellina e Matteo Brera

Introduction

Imprisonment is a contested topic and, in the Italian context, new interest in captivity has recently emerged in response to the need of questioning the impact of a variety of forms of imprisonment on the national memory and identity in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Italian case is an extremely fruitful testbed to evaluate to what extent the transformations occurred to culturally relevant forms of imprisonment through the last century have shaped the public discourse and have been represented in different contexts, thus contributing to actual social and cultural changes, especially during the recent COVID-19 and migrant crises. Continua a leggere “Dentro il carcere”. Interviews with Mary Gibson, Patrizio Gonnella, Amir Issaa, Dacia Maraini and Maria Giustina Laurenzi on Imprisonment

(fasc. 52, 31 luglio 2024)