Mafia Movies : A Reader, Second Edition / Dana Renga.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Renga, Dana, editor.

Series:

Toronto Italian Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mafia in motion pictures.

Italy.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 426 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The mafia has always fascinated filmmakers and television producers. Al Capone, Salvatore Giuliano, Lucky Luciano, Ciro Di Marzio, Roberto Saviano, Don Vito and Michael Corleone, and Tony Soprano are some of the historical and fictional figures that contribute to the myth of the Italian and Italian-American mafias perpetuated onscreen. This collection looks at mafia movies and television over time and across cultures, from the early classics to the Godfather trilogy and contemporary Italian films and television series. The only comprehensive collection of its type, Mafia Movies treats over fifty films and TV shows created since 1906, while introducing Italian and Italian-American mafia history and culture. The second edition includes new original essays on essential films and TV shows that have emerged since the publication of the first edition, such as Boardwalk Empire and Mob Wives, as well as a new roundtable section on Italy's "other" mafias in film and television, written as a collaborative essay by more than ten scholars. The edition also introduces a new section called "Double Takes" that elaborates on some of the most popular mafia films and TV shows (e.g. The Godfather and The Sopranos) organized around themes such as adaptation, gender and politics, urban spaces, and performance and stardom.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Part One. Setting the Scene

1. The Corleones at Home and Abroad / Renga, Dana

2. Gender and Violence: Four Themes in the Everyday World of Mafia Wives / Schneider, Jane / Schneider, Peter

Part Two. American Mafia Movies and Television: The Corleones at Home and Abroad

3. Wallace McCutcheon's The Black Hand: A Different Version of a Biograph Kidnapping / Maggitti, Vincenzo

4. 'Most Thrilling Subjects': D.W. Griffith and the Biograph Revenge Films / Ruvoli, Joanne

5. Ethnicity and the Classical Gangster Film: Mervyn LeRoy's Little Caesar and Howard Hawks's Scarface / Bouchard, Norma

6. Playing Good Italian/Bad Italian on ABC's The Untouchables / Cavallero, Jonathan J.

7. Prelude to The Godfather: Martin Ritt's The Brotherhood / Casillo, Robert

8. Michael Corleone's Tie: Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather / Tamburri, Anthony Julian

9. Nihilism and Mafiositá in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets / D'Acierno, Pellegrino

10. Thematic Patterns in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather: Part II / Russo, John Paul

11. The Sexual Politics of Loyalty in John Huston's Prizzi's Honor / Bauman, Rebecca

12. Between Postmodern Parody and Generic Hybridization: The Gangsters of Brian De Palma's The Untouchables / Bouchard, Norma

13. The Bandit, the Gangster, and the American Army Shorts: Michael Cimino's The Sicilian / Mazzucchelli, Chiara

14. Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas: Hybrid Storytelling between Realism and Formalism / Orsitto, Fulvio

15. Redemption in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather: Part III / Russo, John Paul

16. Narrating the Mafia, Las Vegas, and Ethnicity in Martin Scorsese's Casino / Bisoni, Claudio

17. 'Nothing Romantic about It': Gender and the Legacy of Crime in Abel Ferrara's The Funeral / Santoro, Lara

18. Inside the Mafia: Mike Newell's Donnie Brasco / Casillo, Robert

19. Family Therapy: Harold Ramis's Analyze This and the Evolution of the Gangster Genre / Bayman, Louis

20. Martin Scorsese's The Departed, or the Quest for a Departed (Ethnic) Identity / Heyer-Caput, Margherita

21. When Words Can Kill: David Chase's The Sopranos / Ricci, Franco

22. 'Don't Stop Believin', Don't Stop ...': (De)Structuring Expectations in the Final Season of The Sopranos / Lombardi, Giancarlo

23. 'History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Does Rhyme': Fictionalizing History in Boardwalk Empire / Russo, Paolo

24. Mob Wives: Exploitation or Empowerment? / Reich, Jacqueline / Karim, Fatima

Part Three. Italian Mafia Movies and Television: Resistance and Myth

25. Which Law Is the Father's? Gender and Generic Oscillation in Pietro Germi's In the Name of the Law / Hipkins, Danielle

26. The Visible, Unexposed: Francesco Rosi's Salvatore Giuliano / Wittman, Laura

27. Modernity, Mafia Style: Alberto Lattuada's Mafioso / Moe, Nelson

28. Francesco Rosi's Hands over the City: A Contemporary Perspective on the Camorra / Paparcone, Anna

29. Prototypes of the Mafia: Luchino Visconti's The Leopard / Leake, Elizabeth

30. The Failure of the Intellectual: Elio Petri's Filming of Leonardo Sciascia's To Each His Own / Bini, Daniela

31. Damiano Damiani's The Day of the Owl: A Western Flirtation / Garofalo, Piero

32. Smaller and Larger Families: Lina Wertmüller's The Seduction of Mimi / Harrison, Thomas

33. Deconstructing the Enigma: Logical Investigations in Francesco Rosi's Lucky Luciano / Marrone, Gaetana

34. Power as Such: The Idea of the Mafia in Francesco Rosi's Illustrious Corpses / O'Leary, Alan

35. Marco Risi's Forever Mary: Desperate Lives Converge in Sicilia 'Non Bedda' / Stefano, George de

36. Threads of Political Violence in Italy's Spiderweb: Giorgio Ambrosoli's Murder in Michele Placido's A Bourgeois Hero / Testa, Carlo

37. Sacrifice, Sacrament, and the Body in Ricky Tognazzi's La scorta / Swennen Ruthenberg, Myriam

38. Pasquale Scimeca's Placido Rizzotto: A Different View of Corleone / Boylan, Amy

39. Marco Tullio Giordana's The Hundred Steps: The Biopic as Political Cinema / Stefano, George de

40. Roberta Torre's Angela: The Mafia and the 'Woman's Film' / O'Rawe, Catherine

41. Organized Crime and Unfulfilled Promises in Gabriele Salvatores' I'm Not Scared / O'Riley, Michael

42. Growing Up Camorrista: Antonio and Andrea Frazzi's Certi bambini / Cooper, Allison

43. Lipstick and Chocolate: Paolo Sorrentino's The Consequences of Love / Wood, Mary

44. The In(di)visibility of the Mafia, Politics, and Ethics in Bianchi and Nerazzini's The Mafia Is White / Pickering-Iazzi, Robin

45. Marco Turco's Excellent Cadavers: An Italian Tragedy / Spazzini, Maddalena

46. Dispatches from Hell: Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah / Antonello, Pierpaolo

47. From Comedy to Commemoration: Pierfrancesco Diliberto's La mafia uccide solo d'estate / Marcus, Millicent

48. Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza's Salvo: The Sound of Redemption in an Infernal Landscape / Boylan, Amy

49. Of Renegades and Game Players: Shifting Sympathies in Gomorra: la serie / Lombardi, Giancarlo

Part Four. Italy's Other Mafias in Film and on Television: A Roundtable

50. Introduction - The Banda della Magliana, the Camorra, the 'Ndrangheta, and the Sacra Corona Unita: The Mafia On Screen beyond the Cosa Nostra / Renga, Dana

51. Historicizing Italy's Other Mafias: Some Considerations / Dickie, John

52. Romanzo criminale: Roma Caput Violandi / Cooper, Allison

53. Romanzo criminale: la serie / O'Rawe, Catherine

54. Toxic Tables: The Representation of Food in Camorra Films / Boylan, Amy

55. The New Mafia in Una vita tranquilla / Luca, Giovanna de

56. Soap Operas / Lombardi, Giancarlo

57. Response #1 / Gordon, Robert

58. Response #2 / Hipkins, Danielle

59. Response #3 / Pickering-Iazzi, Robin

60. Conclusion / Cooper, Allison

Part Five. Double Takes

The Godfather

61. The Godfather: Performance and Stardom / Holdaway, Dom

62. The Godfather: Adaptation / Zambenedetti, Alberto

63. The Godfather: Gender / Renga, Dana

64. The Godfather: Scene Analysis - Don Vito's Office / Zambenedetti, Alberto

65. The Godfather: Scene Analysis - The Baptism/Murder / Zambenedetti, Alberto

66. The Godfather: Scene Analysis - The Finale / Paul, Daniel

The Sopranos

67. The Sopranos: Antiheroic Masculinity / Renga, Dana

68. The Sopranos: Gender / Holdaway, Dom

69. The Sopranos: (Sub)Urban Space / Zambenedetti, Alberto

70. The Sopranos: Episode 1.01, 'The Sopranos' / Holdaway, Dom

71. The Sopranos: Episode 1.05, 'College' / O'Sullivan, Sean

72. The Sopranos: Episode 2.04, 'Commendatori' / O'Sullivan, Sean

Romanzo criminale

73. Romanzo criminale: Performance and Stardom / O'Rawe, Catherine

74. Romanzo criminale: Adaptation/Transmedia / Holdaway, Dom

75. Romanzo criminale: Gender / Hipkins, Danielle

76. Romanzo criminale: Politics and Terrorism / Holdaway, Dom

77. Romanzo criminale: Scene Analysis - The Aldo Moro Kidnapping / O'Rawe, Catherine

78. Romanzo criminale: Scene Analysis - The Bologna Bombing / O'Leary, Alan

Gomorrah

79. Gomorrah: Gender / Past, Elena

80. Gomorrah: Metacinematic References / Zambenedetti, Alberto

81. Gomorrah: Urban Space / Seger, Monica

82. Gomorrah: Scene Analysis - Opening Sequence / Zambenedetti, Alberto

83. Gomorrah: Scene Analysis - The Initiation of Totò / Zambenedetti, Alberto

84. Gomorrah: Scene Analysis - The Finale / Seger, Monica

Filmography

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-1047-0

1-4875-1046-2

OCLC:

1121053625