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 14/12/2012 
Kate Wiliams and Niccolò Vivarelli
Kate Williams - author of The Pleasure of Men, a historian who specializes in Victorian Era, and a familiar face on British television, as a commentator on the Royal Family - has written a novel about a young woman who ...
 14/12/2012 
Mendoza, Wright and Carlotto
talk about the new mafias
In a snowy Courmayeur, Mexican writer Élmer Mendoza spoke about stories centered on a different kind of snow: cocaine. And the new mafias. The protagonist of his Cartel del Pacifico is Edgar Mendieta. “A ...
 14/12/2012 
Genre cinema and cinema genres
A discussion with Crescentini, Marengo,
Canizzaro and Zarantonello
Today at the Jardin de l’Ange, four Italian directors and actors presented their work, each indirectly offering their vision of genre cinema, the central theme of the Vedo Nero - Laboratorio sul cinema italiano conference held last ...
 14/12/2012 
Death becomes the imagination
of Tim Burton
by Luca Di Leonardo
At Edward Bloom’s funeral, his son Will must re-evaluate his whole life. He always thought his father a mad braggart capable of only inventing oddball characters and implausible stories. But when he finds himself immersed in a circus of bizarre ...
 13/12/2012 
The [Anti]Mafias and Us
In the second day of this year’s conference, the event moderated by Gaetano Savatteri moved from “good guys” to “bad guys.”
Schematically, from how the Mafia has been portrayed to those who opposed it. And as in the first part of ...
 
 
HIGHLIGHTS  
Raymond Chandler
Award 2012
goes to Don Winslow
He was born on Halloween, he lives in San Diego, he loves Africa , which he criss-crossed also as a safari guide, and America, of which he has narrated illusions and the discovery of disenchantment. He was a private investigator, a jack of all ...