Unfinished Business : Screening the Italian Mafia in the New Millennium / Dana Renga.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Renga, Dana, author.

Series:

Toronto Italian studies Unfinished business

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mafia in motion pictures.

Gangster films--Italy--History and criticism.

Gangster films.

Psychic trauma in motion pictures.

Motion pictures and women.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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."--Pub. desc

"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

Contents:

Introduction: Trauma, gender, and recent Italian Mafia cinema

Oedipal conflicts in Marco Tullio Giordana's I cento passi

Honour, shame and vendetta: Pasquale Scimeca's Placido Rizzotto

Mafia women in a man's world: Roberta Torre's Angela

The Mafia noir: Paolo Sorrentino's Le conseguenze dell'amore

Men of honour, man of glass: Stefano Incerti's L'uomo di vetro

The female mob boss: Edoardo Winspeare's Galantuomini

Melancholia and the mob weepie: Davide Barletti and Lorenzo Conte's Fine pena mai: Paradiso perduto

Mourining disavowed: Matteo Garrone's Gomorra

Recasting Rita Atria in Marco Amenta's La siciliana ribelle

Trauma postponed: Claudio Cupellini's Una vita tranquilla

Epilogue: Why must Caesar die?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2019)

ISBN:

9781442668324

1442668326

9781442668317

1442668318

OCLC:

871355556