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Public Matters: Media, Justice, and Politics in post-1992 Italy
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| 자료유형 | 학위논문 |
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| 서명/저자사항 | Public Matters: Media, Justice, and Politics in post-1992 Italy. |
| 개인저자 | Campolonghi, Paolo. |
| 단체저자명 | New York University. Italian Studies. |
| 발행사항 | [S.l.]: New York University., 2019. |
| 발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019. |
| 형태사항 | 233 p. |
| 기본자료 저록 | Dissertations Abstracts International 81-05A. Dissertation Abstract International |
| ISBN | 9781392370599 |
| 학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2019. |
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Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-05, Section: A.
Advisor: Forgacs, David. |
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| 요약 | In my dissertation Public Matters: Media, Justice, and Politics in Post-1992 Italy I analyze the ways in which, over the course of the years leading to the 2013 and 2018 general elections, politics and justice have become the main stage of public life, both in terms of institutional agenda and media attention. This centrality has come as a byproduct of the interconnections between the media representation of judicial matters, the growing power of the magistracy that compensates for the fragility of the party system, and a series of turbulent political events that began in the early 1990s. In the dissertation, I argue that Italy's recent historical trajectory can be properly understood only by considering the intersection of three lines of force: politics, media, and the justice system.The interdependence of these three dimensions is epitomized by Silvio Berlusconi's political arc with all its controversies and anomalies. From the conflict of interests between his economic empire and his political office to the long series of indictments and private scandals, Berlusconi has monopolized the public scene. He did this in part by turning the parliament into a council chamber devoted to debating the legal implications of his personal interests. As a consequence, this process opened a contrast with the magistracy-the latter being accused of prosecuting him for political reasons, in antithesis to its supposed impartiality. This confrontation was exacerbated by Berlusconi's omnipresence both behind and in the media. In this regard, such public exposition cannot be underestimated for its capacity to orient and condition public opinion. Nevertheless, while recognizing Berlusconi's pivotal role for any analysis of present-day Italy, my work is not primarily an explication of Berlusconi's rule as a self-created power. Rather I trace back the conditions that made his model of political leadership both possible and successful. In this dissertation, thus, I investigate the genealogy of Berlusconi's means of power by focusing in on what some might consider secondary phenomena of the period such as the flourishing of media productions reporting judicial facts. I then relate these explicitly back to the power effects they produce in the realm of the political. I am particularly interested in how mediations of judicial facts fostered the stark polarization in both spectatorship and the electorate that still set the tone of the public debates on justice and politics in post-Berlusconi Italy, as the success of the Movimento 5 Stelle clearly shows.Likewise, my research touches on the multifaceted populism of present political patterns, in which institutional leadership is often acquired by means of a propagandistic closeness with the moods of the mass. I maintain, however, that Italy's recent history has shown that this performed proximity of means of political legitimation to grassroots instances tends to degenerate into ludic interpretations of power, of which Berlusconi and Beppe Grillo are symbols |
| 일반주제명 | European history. Political science. Mass communications. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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