Mafia movies : a reader / edited by Dana Renga
- Published:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2011]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2011
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Renga, Dana, 1971-
- Series:
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. One Setting the Scene -- The Corleones at Home and Abroad / Dana Renga -- Gender and Violence: Four Themes in the Everyday World of Mafia Wives / Peter Schneider -- pt. Two American Mafia Movies: The Corleones at Home and Abroad -- 1.Wallace McCutchen's The Black Hand: A Different Version of a Biograph Kidnapping / Vincenzo Maggitti -- 2.`Most Thrilling Subjects': D.W. Griffith and the Biograph Revenge Films / Joanne Ruvoli -- 3.Ethnicity and the Classical Gangster Film: Mervyn LeRoy's Little Caesar and Howard Hawks' Scarface / Norma Bouchard -- 4.Playing Good Italian/Bad Italian in ABC's The Untouchables / Jonathan J. Cavallero -- 5.Prelude to The Godfather. Martin Ritt's The Brotherhood / Robert Casillo -- 6.Micheal Corleone's Tie: Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather / Anthony Julian Tamburri -- 7.Nihilism and Mafiosita in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets / Pellegrino D'Acierno -- 8.Thematic Patterns in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather: Part II / John Paul Russo -- 9.The Sexual Politics of Loyalty in John Huston's Prizzi's Honor / Rebecca Bauman -- 10.Between Postmodern Parody and Generic Hybridization: The Gangsters of Brian De Palma's The Untouchables / Norma Bouchard -- 11.The Bandit, the Gangster, and the American Army Shorts: Michael Cimino's The Sicilian / Chiara Mazzucchelli -- 12.Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas: Hybrid Storytelling between Realism and Formalism / Fulvio Orsitto -- 13.Redemption in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather: Part III / John Paul Russo -- 14.`Nothing Romantic about It': Gender and the Legacy of Crime in Abel Ferrara's The Funeral / Lara Santoro -- 15.Inside the Mafia: Mike Newell's Donnie Brasco / Robert Casillo -- 16.Martin Scorsese's The Departed, Or the Quest for a Departed Ethnic Identity / Margherita Heyer-Caput -- 17.When Words Can Kill: David Chase's The Sopranos / Franco Ricci -- 18.`Don't Stop Believin', Don't Stop ...': (De)Structuring Expectations in the Final Season of The Sopranos / Giancarlo Lombardi -- pt. Three Italian Mafia Movies: Myth and Resistance -- 19.Which Law Is the Father's? Gender and Generic Oscillation in Pietro Germi's In the Name of the Law / Danielle Hipkins -- 20.The Visible, Unexposed: Francesco Rosi's Salvatore Giuliano / Laura Wittman -- 21.Modernity, Mafia Style: Alberto Lattuada's Il mafioso / Nelson Moe -- 22.Francesco Rosi's Hands Over the City: A Contemporary Perspective on the Camorra / Anna Paparcone -- 23.Prototypes of the Mafia: Luchino Visconti's The Leopard / Elizabeth Leake -- 24.The Failure of the Intellectual: Elio Petri's Filming of Leonardo Sciascia's To Each His Own / Daniela Bini -- 25.Damiano Damiani's The Day of the Owl: A Western Flirtation / Piero Garofalo -- 26.Smaller and Larger Families: Lina Wertmuller's The Seduction of Mimi / Thomas Harrison -- 27.Deconstructing the Enigma: Logical Investigations in Francesco Rosi's Lucky Luciano / Gaetana Marrone -- 28.Power as Such: The Idea of the Mafia in Franceso Rosi's Illustrious Corpses / Alan O'Leary -- 29.Marco Risi's Forever Mary: Desperate Lives Converge in Sicilia `Non Bedda' / George De Stefano -- 30.Threads of Political Violence in Italy's Spiderweb: Giorgio Ambrosoli's Murder in Michele Placido's A Bourgeois Hero / Carlo Testa -- 31.Sacrifice, Sacrament, and the Body in Ricky Tognazzi's La scorta / Myriam Swennen Ruthenberg -- 32.Pasquale Scimeca's Placido Rizzotto: A Different View of Corleone / Amy Boylan -- 33.Marco Tullio Giordana's The Hundred Steps: The Biopic as Political Cinema / George De Stefano -- 34.Roberta Torre's Angela: The Mafia and the `Woman's Film' / Catherine O'Rawe -- 35.Organized Crime and Unfulfilled Promises in Gabriele Salvatores' I'm Not Scared / Michael O'Riley -- 36.Growing Up Camorrista: Antonio and Andrea Frazzi's Certi bambini / Allison Cooper -- 37.Lipstick and Chocolate: Paolo Sorrentino's The Consequences of Love / Mary Wood -- 38.The In(di)visibility of the Mafia, Politics, and Ethics in Bianchi and Nerazzini's The Mafia Is White / Robin Pickering-Iazzi -- 39.Marco Turco's Excellent Cadavers: An Italian Tragedy / Maddalena Spazzini -- 40.Dispatches from Hell: Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah / Pierpaolo Antonello.
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- ISBN:
- 9780802099693 (bound)
0802099696 (bound)
9780802096654 (pbk.)
0802096654 (pbk.) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-398) and filmography (pages [387]-390).
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