Il mattatoio between Marcuse and patronage. Some keys to read the work of Pressburger

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  • Francesco Carini Universidad de Valencia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.18.16839

Keywords:

The slaughter house, radio play, Giorgio Pressburger, RAI, Herbert Marcuse, Luciano Prisco, consumer society

Abstract

This article presents the radio-play Il mattatoio (The slaughter house) by the writer and playwright Giorgio Pressburger. The analysis is focused on some main points of the theories of Herbert Marcuse (who is directly mentioned in the incipit of the piece) regarding consumer society and family.  In this work, presented by RAI at the Prix Italia 1967 and aired on the Third Program on the 9th October of the same year, the author is able to describe with intelligence a situation in which Luciano Prisco, an alleged mobster and businessman native of Naples, owner of three slaughterhouses in New York, passes craftily over everything that is not connected to his own social and economic climbing. In such context, where family becomes only a way to manage power and business, in part like a clientelistic structure, with functions and roles decided by the main character, every aspect that is not connected to the protection and growth of his authority becomes useless and dangerous.

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Author Biography

Francesco Carini, Universidad de Valencia

Francesco Carini is an Italian blogger and journalist, winner of the National Prize Good Writing for the section Under 35. He has collaborated as editor with the publishing house Artdigiland and as research fellow at the University of Turin, where he got a master’s degree in Cultural anthropology and ethnology. He is currently a PHD candidate at the University of Valencia in the program “Comunicación e interculturalidad”. Francesco Carini authors the blog Homo Sum, in which he seeks to raise awareness about civil and social rights using the cinema, as a fundamental medium to explain reality. In 2019 he published an essay about the movie Berlino 39 in the book Il cinema di Sergio Sollima .

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Published

2019-12-29

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Carini, F. (2019). <i>Il mattatoio</i> between Marcuse and patronage. Some keys to read the work of Pressburger. EU-topías. A Journal on Interculturality, Communication, and European Studies, 18, 33–38. https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.18.16839
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