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Publ/date Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995.
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Publ/date Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1989.
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Publ/date New York : St. Martin's Press, 1990.
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From: "Keaney Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 6:08 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:13272] Fw: Antonio Negri
> Many moons ago Louis Proyect wrote:
>
> > > When Italy failed to respond to the autonomist movement, the activists
> > > became frustrated and turned to the terrorism of the Red Brigades,
their
> > > version of the Weathermen.
>
> Prior to making vacuous stuff like Malena, Italian film-maker Giuseppe
> Tornatore, in his debut feature, directed "Il Camorrista" (1986), rarely
> seen because of its rather sensitive (for certain mafia types) treatment
of
> recent Naples history. Ben Gazzara stars in the lead role as "Il
> professore", a man who is convicted of murder, and from within prison,
> proceeds to construct a mafia empire that envelops Naples -- the Camorra.
> Local government officials, police, civil society -- all are enmeshed in
the
> Camorra web of corruption, extortion and murder. The cosy relationships
> between the mafia, business and the state are shattered by the appearance
of
> the Red Brigades, whose bombing campaign effectively brings down the roof
on
> the whole arrangement, with Il professore being carted off to solitary
> confinement far away in an island prison remote from Naples.
>
> That's a very concise and unjust summary of what is a very powerful film,
> clearly made with controlled anger (the film, that is). I had the
privilege
> of seeing it a few years back in Glasgow. Such was the film's rarity that
no
> English subtitles had been prepared for it, and a stenographer was present
> translating dialogue as it happened into English, whereupon subtitles
> appeared on screen. Those present were told that within four days of the
> film's original release, distributors and cinema-owners were given a heavy
> steer by the Camorra not to proceed with distributing/showing the film,
and
> it languished for a decade. Only with the collapse of the old political
> order was it felt to be safe enough to risk dusting it down for public
> consumption again.
>
> Anyway, the message of the film seemed pretty clear, although it might be
a
> trick of the memory. The Red Brigades arose in response to the suffocating
> web of corruption interlocking the mafia, business and the state. While
not
> doing much to enact change at a national level, its local successes were
> significant and had far-reaching consequences for the middle orders of the
> old state-business-mafia complex.
>
> Incidentally, does Berlusconi feature in the Hardt-Negri index?
>
> Michael K.
>
