Unfinished Business : Screening the Italian Mafia in the New Millennium /

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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 m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Renga, Dana, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ontario] : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Film
Mafia > Motiv
Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
Motion pictures and women.
Mafia in motion pictures.
Gangster films.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Cinema et femmes.
Traumatisme psychique au cinema.
Mafia au cinema.
Films de gangsters > Italie > Histoire et critique.
Gangster films > Italy.
Gangster films > Italy > History and criticism.
Italien
Italy.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?

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