Unfinished Business

Screening the Italian Mafia in the New Millennium

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Unfinished Business is the first book to examine Italian mafia cinema of the past decade. It provides insightful analyses of popular films that sensationalize violence, scapegoat women, or repress the homosexuality of male protagonists. Dana Renga examines these works through the lens of gender and trauma theory to show how the films engage with the process of mourning and healing mafia-related trauma in Italy.Unfinished Business argues that trauma that has yet to be worked through on the national level is displaced onto the characters in the films under consideration. In a mafia context, female characters are sacrificed and non-normative sexual identities are suppressed in order to solidify traditional modes of viewer identification and to assure narrative closure, all so that the image of the nation is left unblemished.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-08-09
Mått152 x 228 x 17 mm
Vikt400 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781442615588

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Introduction: Gender, Trauma and Recent Italian Mafia CinemaChapter 1: Oedipal Conflicts in Marco Tullio Giordana’s I cento passi Chapter 2: Honor, Shame and Vendetta: Pasquale Scimeca’s Placido Rizzotto Chapter 3: Mafia Woman in a Man’s World: Roberta Torre’s AngelaChapter 4: The Mafia Noir: Paolo Sorrentino’s Le conseguenze dell’amoreChapter 5: Men of Honor, Man of Glass: Stefano Incerti’s L’uomo di vetroChapter 6: The Female Mob Boss: Edoardo Winspeare’s GalantuominiChapter 7: Melancholia and the Mob Weepie: Davide Barletti and Lorenzo Conte’s Fine pena mai: paradiso perdutoChapter 8: Mourning Disavowed: Matteo Garrone’s GomorraChapter 9: Recasting Rita Atria in Marco Amenta’s La siciliana ribelleChapter 10: Trauma Postponed: Claudio Cupellini’s Una vita tranquillaEpilogue: Why Must Caesar Die?Works Cited

‘Unfinished Business is a thorough, well-researched, and well-executed study… Renga’s insightful and scrupulous analyses will surely generate plenty of new debates in Mafia studies, as well as in film, cultural studies and number of other disciplines.’- Lara Santoro (Journal of Modern Italian Studies , February 2015) ‘There’s no doubt that Renga’s volume is essential reading for scholars of both Mafia films and Italian cinema more widely.’- Pasquale Iannone (University of Toronto Quarterly vol 84:03:2015) ‘Renga’s film choices are spot-on, and offer a wide variety of Mafia themed films from the new millennium... It is refreshing to find a scholar so conscious of film, gender, and gender theory.- Ryan Calabretta-Sajder (Italica vol 92:04:2015)