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Mafia Movies : A Reader, Second Edition /
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-...
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Toronto Italian Studies
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part One. Setting the Scene
- 1. The Corleones at Home and Abroad
- 2. Gender and Violence: Four Themes in the Everyday World of Mafia Wives
- 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
- 4. 'Most Thrilling Subjects': D.W. Griffith and the Biograph Revenge Films
- 5. Ethnicity and the Classical Gangster Film: Mervyn LeRoy's Little Caesar and Howard Hawks's Scarface
- 6. Playing Good Italian/Bad Italian on ABC's The Untouchables
- 7. Prelude to The Godfather: Martin Ritt's The Brotherhood
- 8. Michael Corleone's Tie: Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather
- 9. Nihilism and Mafiositá in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets
- 10. Thematic Patterns in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather: Part II
- 11. The Sexual Politics of Loyalty in John Huston's Prizzi's Honor
- 12. Between Postmodern Parody and Generic Hybridization: The Gangsters of Brian De Palma's The Untouchables
- 13. The Bandit, the Gangster, and the American Army Shorts: Michael Cimino's The Sicilian
- 14. Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas: Hybrid Storytelling between Realism and Formalism
- 15. Redemption in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather: Part III
- 16. Narrating the Mafia, Las Vegas, and Ethnicity in Martin Scorsese's Casino
- 17. 'Nothing Romantic about It': Gender and the Legacy of Crime in Abel Ferrara's The Funeral
- 18. Inside the Mafia: Mike Newell's Donnie Brasco
- 19. Family Therapy: Harold Ramis's Analyze This and the Evolution of the Gangster Genre
- 20. Martin Scorsese's The Departed, or the Quest for a Departed (Ethnic) Identity
- 21. When Words Can Kill: David Chase's The Sopranos
- 22. 'Don't Stop Believin', Don't Stop ...': (De)Structuring Expectations in the Final Season of The Sopranos
- 23. 'History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Does Rhyme': Fictionalizing History in Boardwalk Empire
- 24. Mob Wives: Exploitation or Empowerment?
- 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
- 26. The Visible, Unexposed: Francesco Rosi's Salvatore Giuliano
- 27. Modernity, Mafia Style: Alberto Lattuada's Mafioso
- 28. Francesco Rosi's Hands over the City: A Contemporary Perspective on the Camorra
- 29. Prototypes of the Mafia: Luchino Visconti's The Leopard
- 30. The Failure of the Intellectual: Elio Petri's Filming of Leonardo Sciascia's To Each His Own
- 31. Damiano Damiani's The Day of the Owl: A Western Flirtation
- 32. Smaller and Larger Families: Lina Wertmüller's The Seduction of Mimi
- 33. Deconstructing the Enigma: Logical Investigations in Francesco Rosi's Lucky Luciano
- 34. Power as Such: The Idea of the Mafia in Francesco Rosi's Illustrious Corpses
- 35. Marco Risi's Forever Mary: Desperate Lives Converge in Sicilia 'Non Bedda'
- 36. Threads of Political Violence in Italy's Spiderweb: Giorgio Ambrosoli's Murder in Michele Placido's A Bourgeois Hero
- 37. Sacrifice, Sacrament, and the Body in Ricky Tognazzi's La scorta
- 38. Pasquale Scimeca's Placido Rizzotto: A Different View of Corleone
- 39. Marco Tullio Giordana's The Hundred Steps: The Biopic as Political Cinema
- 40. Roberta Torre's Angela: The Mafia and the 'Woman's Film'
- 41. Organized Crime and Unfulfilled Promises in Gabriele Salvatores' I'm Not Scared
- 42. Growing Up Camorrista: Antonio and Andrea Frazzi's Certi bambini
- 43. Lipstick and Chocolate: Paolo Sorrentino's The Consequences of Love
- 44. The In(di)visibility of the Mafia, Politics, and Ethics in Bianchi and Nerazzini's The Mafia Is White
- 45. Marco Turco's Excellent Cadavers: An Italian Tragedy
- 46. Dispatches from Hell: Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah
- 47. From Comedy to Commemoration: Pierfrancesco Diliberto's La mafia uccide solo d'estate
- 48. Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza's Salvo: The Sound of Redemption in an Infernal Landscape
- 49. Of Renegades and Game Players: Shifting Sympathies in Gomorra: la serie
- 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
- 51. Historicizing Italy's Other Mafias: Some Considerations
- 52. Romanzo criminale: Roma Caput Violandi
- 53. Romanzo criminale: la serie
- 54. Toxic Tables: The Representation of Food in Camorra Films
- 55. The New Mafia in Una vita tranquilla
- 56. Soap Operas
- 57. Response #1
- 58. Response #2
- 59. Response #3
- 60. Conclusion
- Part Five. Double Takes
- The Godfather
- 61. The Godfather: Performance and Stardom
- 62. The Godfather: Adaptation
- 63. The Godfather: Gender
- 64. The Godfather: Scene Analysis - Don Vito's Office
- 65. The Godfather: Scene Analysis - The Baptism/Murder
- 66. The Godfather: Scene Analysis - The Finale
- The Sopranos
- 67. The Sopranos: Antiheroic Masculinity
- 68. The Sopranos: Gender
- 69. The Sopranos: (Sub)Urban Space
- 70. The Sopranos: Episode 1.01, 'The Sopranos'
- 71. The Sopranos: Episode 1.05, 'College'
- 72. The Sopranos: Episode 2.04, 'Commendatori'
- Romanzo criminale
- 73. Romanzo criminale: Performance and Stardom
- 74. Romanzo criminale: Adaptation/Transmedia
- 75. Romanzo criminale: Gender
- 76. Romanzo criminale: Politics and Terrorism
- 77. Romanzo criminale: Scene Analysis - The Aldo Moro Kidnapping
- 78. Romanzo criminale: Scene Analysis - The Bologna Bombing
- Gomorrah
- 79. Gomorrah: Gender
- 80. Gomorrah: Metacinematic References
- 81. Gomorrah: Urban Space
- 82. Gomorrah: Scene Analysis - Opening Sequence
- 83. Gomorrah: Scene Analysis - The Initiation of Totò
- 84. Gomorrah: Scene Analysis - The Finale
- Filmography
- Selected Bibliography
- Contributors