Il lato B della Storia. Berlusconi tra cinema e televisione

My first impression of this book, wrote Furio Colombo, is unfair. Again? Is it possible that not everything has been said about Berlusconi? Instead, Pesce is giving us the right book at the right time: an incredible account of an incredible moment. The quick, dry, and comical story of the most unpredictable government figure known to Italians. From Fellini to Nanni Moretti, all the way to Sorrentino's Loro, the parable of Berlusconi's story and Berlusconism. A long period that, from commercial television to center-right governments, changed Italy forever. Evidently not for the better. Because it's not true that "appearances are enough." And it was madness to think that the colorful circus of advertising and the world of entertainment could be elevated to a system of power. This slim essay reconstructs, for the first time, a narrative spanning cinema, television (and a few books) of the last thirty years around the central figure of Silvio Berlusconi, who—first as an entrepreneur and then as a politician—marked an era now over, yet continues to cast its long shadow.