Dana Renga

Unfinished Business (eBook, PDF)

Screening the Italian Mafia in the New Millennium

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442668317
• Artikelnr.: 54109856

Autorenporträt

Dana Renga is an associate professor of Italian at The Ohio State University. She is the author of Unfinished Business: Screening the Italian Mafia in the New Millennium (2013) and Watching Sympathetic Perpetrators on Italian Television: Gomorrah and Beyond (2019) and has published extensively on Italian cinema and television.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Gender, Trauma and Recent Italian Mafia Cinema
Chapter 1: Oedipal Conflicts in Marco Tullio Giordana’s I cento passi
Chapter 2: Honor, Shame and Vendetta: Pasquale Scimeca’s Placido Rizzotto
Chapter 3: Mafia Woman in a Man’s World: Roberta Torre’s Angela
Chapter 4: The Mafia Noir: Paolo Sorrentino’s Le conseguenze dell’amore
Chapter 5: Men of Honor, Man of Glass: Stefano Incerti’s L’uomo di vetro
Chapter 6: The Female Mob Boss: Edoardo Winspeare’s Galantuomini
Chapter 7: Melancholia and the Mob Weepie: Davide Barletti and Lorenzo
Conte’s Fine pena mai: paradiso perduto
Chapter 8: Mourning Disavowed: Matteo Garrone’s Gomorra
Chapter 9: Recasting Rita Atria in Marco Amenta’s La siciliana ribelle
Chapter 10: Trauma Postponed: Claudio Cupellini’s Una vita tranquilla
Epilogue: Why Must Caesar Die?
Works Cited