| Description |
xiv, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Toronto Italian studies
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Toronto Italian studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-398) and filmography (pages 387-390). |
| Contents |
Setting the scene. Introduction : Corleones at home and abroad / Dana Renga ; Gender and Violence : four themes in the everyday world of mafia wives / Peter Schneider and Jane Schneider -- American mafia movies : Corleones at home and abroad. Wallace McCutchen's The Black Hand : a different version of a biograph kidnapping / Vincenzo Maggitti ; "Most thrilling subjects" : D.W. Griffith and the biograph revenge films / JoAnne Ruvoli ; Ethnicity and the classical gangster film : Mervyn LeRoy's Little Caesar and Howard Hawks' Scarface / Norma Bouchard ; Playing good Italian/ bad Italian in ABC's The untouchables / Jonathan Cavallero ; Prelude to The Godfather : Martin Ritt's The brotherhood / Robert Casillo ; Micheal Corleone's tie : Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather / Anthony Tamburri ; Nihilism and Mafiositá in Martin Scorsese's Mean streets / Pellegrino D'Acierno ; Thematic patterns in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather : part II / John Paul Russo ; Sexual politics of loyalty in John Huston's Prizzi's honor / Rebecca Bauman ; Between postmodern parody and generic hybridization : Gangsters of Brian De Palma's The untouchables / Norma Bouchard ; Bandit, the gangster, and the American Army shorts : Michael Cimino's The Sicilian / Chiara Mazzucchelli ; Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas : hybrid storytelling between realism and formalism / Fulvio Orsitto ; Redemption in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather : part III / John Paul Russo ; "Nothing romantic about It" : gender and the legacy of crime in Abel Ferrara's The funeral / Lara Santoro ; Inside the mafia : Mike Newell's Donnie Brasco / Robert Casillo ; Martin Scorsese's The departed, or the quest for a departed ethnic identity / Margherita Heyer-Caput ; When words can kill : David Chase's The sopranos / Franco Ricci ; Don't stop believin', don't stop- (de)structuring expectations in the final season of The sopranos / Giancarlo Lombardi -- Italian Mafia movies : myth and resistance. Which law is the father's : gender and generic oscillation in Pietro Germi's In the name of the law / Danielle Hipkins ; Visible, unexposed : Francesco Rosi's Salvatore Giuliano / Laura Wittman ; Modernity, mafia style : Alberto Lattuada's Il mafioso / Nelson Moe ; Francesco Rosi's Hands over the city : a contemporary perspective on the Camorra / Anna Paparcone ; Prototypes of the mafia : Luchino Visconti's The leopard / Elizabeth Leake ; Failure of the intellectual : Elio Petri's filming of Leonardo Sciascia's To each his own / Daniela Bini ; Damiano Damiani's The day of the owl : a Western flirtation / Piero Garofalo ; Smaller and larger families : Lina Wertmuller's The seduction of Mimi / Thomas Harrison ; Deconstructing the enigma : logical investigations in Francesco Rosi's Lucky Luciano / Gaetana Marrone ; Power as such : Idea of the mafia in Franceso Rosi's Illustrious corpses / Alan O'Leary ; Marco Risi's Forever Mary : desperate lives converge in Sicilia "non bedda" / George De Stefano ; Threads of political violence in Italy's spiderweb : Giorgio Ambrosoli's murder in Michele Placido's A Bourgeois Hero / Carlo Testa ; Sacrifice, sacrament, and the body in Ricky Tognazzi's La scorta / Myriam Ruthenburg ; Pasquale Scimeca's Placido Rizzotto : a different view of Corleone / Amy Boylan ; Marco Tullio Giordana's The hundred steps : Biopic as political cinema / George De Stefano ; Roberta Torre's Angela : Mafia and the "woman's film" / Catherine O'Rawe ; Organized crime and unfulfilled promises in Gabriele Salvatores' I'm not scared / Michael O'Riley ; Growing up Camorrista : Antonio and Andrea Frazzi's Certi bambini / Allison Cooper ; Lipstick and chocolate : Paolo Sorrentino's The consequences of love / Mary Wood ; In(di)visibility of the mafia, politics, and ethics in Bianchi and Nerazzini's The mafia is white / Robin Pickering-Iazzi ; Marco Turco's Excellent cadavers : an Italian tragedy / Maddalena Spazzini ; Dispatches from Hell : Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah / Pierpaolo Antonello. |
| Summary |
"Rico 'Little Caesar' Bandello, Michael Corleone, and Tony Soprano are just some of the onscreen mafia figures that have fascinated audiences since cinema's inception. Portrayals of the Italian and Italian-American mafia, though, have differed markedly over time and across multiple cultures--from the Godfather trilogy to contemporary Italian films, and in works both by established producers like Martin Scorsese and emerging directors like Matteo Garrone. |
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Mafia Movies encourages mafia aficionados to explore the rich variety of classics and rarities within the genre with provocative analyses of over forty films. The essays in this volume provide a comprehensive exploration of the myth of the mafia onscreen, identifying key features and connections to styles such as film noir, thrillers, and even westerns. Mafia Movies also questions whether there are uniquely American or Italian ways of depicting the mafia, exploring how filmmakers from both countries have approached the subject in divergent ways. |
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Gangster films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Gangster films. |
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United States. |
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Gangster films -- Italy -- History and criticism.
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Italy. |
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Mafia in motion pictures.
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Mafia in motion pictures. |
| Added Author |
Renga, Dana, 1971-
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| ISBN |
9780802096654 paperback |
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9780802099693 hardback |
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0802099696 hardback |
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0802096654 paperback |
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