[ecrea] New book: Italy beyond Gomorrah. Roberto Saviano and Transmedia Disruption

Rowman & Littlefield International are proud to announce the
      publication of /Italy beyond Gomorrah. Roberto Saviano and
      Transmedia Disruption/, by Floriana Bernardi, part of the series
      “Disruptions
      <https://www.rowmaninternational.com/series/find/RLIDISR>”.

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<https://www.rowmaninternational.com/book/italy_beyond_gomorrah/3-156-6e03cf91-4761-43a0-b4f1-aa724fc83e13>We 
believe this new text will be of interest to you and your colleagues at 
the International Association for Media and Communication Research.

When 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.

/Italy 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 Saviano’s disruptive work and the representation of his 
‘charismatic body’, redefining the figure and task of the modern 
intellectual, the book stresses the agency of literature and the 
relevance of the internet and major social networks in the creation of 
networks of subjectivities and establishing ethical-political duties 
which are grounded in a ‘passional communication’ between the writer and 
his audience, as well as on a micropolitics of affects. Through the 
interpretation of Saviano’s work it also provides provide a cross 
sectional insight into Italy in the post-Berlusconi age.

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*Praise for /Italy beyond Gomorrah. Roberto Saviano and Transmedia 
Disruption/*

**

“In a detailed analysis of the media constructions and framing of 
Roberto Saviano’s Gomorrah, Floriana Bernardi semiotically confronts the 
globally entangled politics and power of crime and corruption. 
Passionately argued, this incisive book contests the entrenched 
conservatism of Italian literary culture, finding in the deliberate 
discontinuity of the figure of Saviano an organic intellectual exposing 
the cultural and political crisis of the present.”

*/Iain Chambers, Professor of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies at the 
Oriental University in Naples, Author of Culture After Humanism/*

*//*

“Bernardi provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of the 
Saviano phenomenon that extends beyond either the content or critical 
success of /Gomorrah/ to the author’s status as intellectual, celebrity, 
popular icon and symbol of protest, demonstrating in the process the 
author’s significant impact on Italian culture and politics through his 
interventions in journalism, television, radio, theatre, cinema and the 
Web.”

*/Federico Bonaddio, Senior Lecturer, King’s College London/*

*//*

/“Bernardi offers a very interesting perspective on the case of Roberto 
Saviano, analysing his figure as a writer, citizen journalist, and 
phenomenon of mass culture. /Italy Beyond Gomorrah /provides an original 
analysis of contemporary Italian culture in the international scenario.”/

*/Patrizia Calefato, Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication 
at the University of Bari Aldo Moro/*

*//*

/“Beyond Gomorrah /is a compelling inquiry into the contemporary 
phenomena of author-branding. In her analysis of Roberto Saviano’s 
public persona and the transmedia narratives that originated from his 
best-selling book, Bernardi engages with major figures in cultural 
studies and philosophy, including Hall, Foucault, and Derrida. Beyond 
/Gomorrah, /Bernardi’s book is a timely contribution to the debate on 
intellectual engagement in the Third Millenium.”

*/Paola Bonifazio, Associate Professor of Italian, The University of 
Texas at Austin/*

“Who is Roberto Saviano? Those interested in learning (more) about the 
complexity of the ‘Saviano Phenomenon’ find answers in this 
interdisciplinary study that scrutinizes Saviano’s transmedia 
interventions, his often-controversial engagement with civic issues, his 
national and global appeal. The author offers a thought-provoking 
analysis of this key intellectual figure and his impact on the 
contemporary Italian cultural scene.”

*/Lucia Rinaldi, Senior Teaching Fellow, University College London/*

*//*

“This book is an original look at the /Gomorrah/ cultural mass 
phenomenon, and at Roberto Saviano as a new example of a transmedia 
intellectual. It reconfigures and complicates the one-sided dimension 
through which/ Gomorrah/ and Saviano have been generally considered and 
discussed to date, particularly in Italy. Bernardi’s analysis of 
Saviano’s alterdisciplinary work compellingly shows how new forms of 
intellectual and critical engagement are possible within the 
contemporary multimedia ecosystem.”

*/Pierpaolo Antonello, Head of Italian Department, University of Cambridge/*

*//*

“A timely and captivating reading of Roberto Saviano as a writer and 
media phenomenon, this book brilliantly illuminates how, after the 
publication of his bestseller /Gomorrah /(2006), Saviano’s persona 
developed through the agency of literature and the relevance of his 
transmedia work, redefining values such as legality, ethical and 
political responsibility, and the figure and task of the modern 
intellectual.”

*/Marco Paoli, Lecturer in Italian and Film Studies at the University of 
Liverpool/*


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