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Unfinished business : screening the Italian Mafia in the new millennium / Dana Renga.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Toronto [Ontario] : University of Toronto Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 256 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442668317
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1995 .U545 2013
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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?
Subject: "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.Subject: 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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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?

"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."--Pub. desc.

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