Italy beyond Gomorrah - 9781786600189

Italy beyond GomorrahRoberto Saviano and Transmedia Disruption\nAuthor(s): Floriana Bernardi\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield International\nISBN-13: 9781786600189, 978-1786600189\nSynopsis\nWhen Roberto Saviano published Gomorrah in 2006 he exposed the Camorra, an organized crime network with global reach emanating from Naples. This ground-breaking work became an international best seller, inspired a film, and a new TV series. The author received so many death threats from the Camorra that he remains under police protection.\n\nItaly beyond Gomorrah investigates the conditions and modalities by which the huge media phenomenon developed around Roberto Saviano after the publication of Gomorrah and the ways in which this has engendered a political discourse starting from his denuncia of the mechanisms of the modern mafia and its bosses. Focusing on Savianos disruptive work and the representation of his charism.