Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Renga, Dana, 1971-

Publication

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2013.

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Details

Description

viii, 256 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Toronto Italian studies

Uniform Title

Toronto Italian studies.

Subject

• Gangster films > Italy > History and criticism
• Mafia in motion pictures
• Psychic trauma in motion pictures
• Motion pictures and women

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-243) and index.

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?

Call Number

MFL 13-6789

ISBN

• 9781442647480 (bound)
• 1442647485 (bound)
• 9781442615588 (pbk.)
• 1442615583 (pbk.)

OCLC

842499932

Author

Renga, Dana, 1971- author.

Title

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

Publisher

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Toronto Italian studies

Toronto Italian studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-243) and index.

Research Call Number

MFL 13-6789