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A New Guide to Italian CinemaThe 1970s

A New Guide to Italian Cinema: The 1970s 1970–78 Political violence throughout Italy’s cities Creation of autonomous regional administrations National Solidarity governments in climate of compromesso storico (historic compromise) between communist and anti-communist parties 1974 Divorce Law Referendum 1976 Communist Party makes electoral gains 1978 Aldo Moro kidnapped and murdered by Red Brigade Terrorists Election of Karol Wojtyla as Pope John Paul II 1981 Revelations of secret P2 Masonic lodge. Red Brigades kidnap U.S. army General Dozier 1983 Bettino Craxi of Italian Socialist Party heads coalition government General Alberto Dalla Chiesa assassinated by Mafia in Palermo 1984 Italian Socialist Party led coalition renegotiates Concordat with Vatican n the 1970s and 1980s terrorist attacks included bombings of buildings and trans- Iportation targets such as the Bologna train station bombing. There were shootings and assassinations of mid-level functionaries, university professors, even periodic sackings of regional headquarters of religious organizations such as Don Giussani’s Comunione e liberazione. Anything remotely connected with the status quo was fair game for terrorist violence, topics treated in the Italian cinema in Francesco Rosi’s Tre fratelli/Three Brothers, Gianni Amelio’s Colpire al cuore/Blow to the Heart (1982), Mimmo Calopresti’s La seconda volta/The Second Time (1996), Cristina Comencini’s La fine è nota/The End Is Known (1993). If http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A New Guide to Italian CinemaThe 1970s

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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007
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978-1-4039-7565-2
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Abstract

1970–78 Political violence throughout Italy’s cities Creation of autonomous regional administrations National Solidarity governments in climate of compromesso storico (historic compromise) between communist and anti-communist parties 1974 Divorce Law Referendum 1976 Communist Party makes electoral gains 1978 Aldo Moro kidnapped and murdered by Red Brigade Terrorists Election of Karol Wojtyla as Pope John Paul II 1981 Revelations of secret P2 Masonic lodge. Red Brigades kidnap U.S. army General Dozier 1983 Bettino Craxi of Italian Socialist Party heads coalition government General Alberto Dalla Chiesa assassinated by Mafia in Palermo 1984 Italian Socialist Party led coalition renegotiates Concordat with Vatican n the 1970s and 1980s terrorist attacks included bombings of buildings and trans- Iportation targets such as the Bologna train station bombing. There were shootings and assassinations of mid-level functionaries, university professors, even periodic sackings of regional headquarters of religious organizations such as Don Giussani’s Comunione e liberazione. Anything remotely connected with the status quo was fair game for terrorist violence, topics treated in the Italian cinema in Francesco Rosi’s Tre fratelli/Three Brothers, Gianni Amelio’s Colpire al cuore/Blow to the Heart (1982), Mimmo Calopresti’s La seconda volta/The Second Time (1996), Cristina Comencini’s La fine è nota/The End Is Known (1993). If

Published: Oct 6, 2015

Keywords: Christian Democrat Party; Terrorist Violence; ITALIAN Cinema; Italian Politics; Italian Communist Party

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