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
"Renga has already firmly established herself as a leading expert on Italian Mafia film narratives and documentaries with the foundational Mafia Movies: A Reader. Her latest, Unfinished Business is an innovative, expertly conceived and executed study that will surely generate new debates in various fields of study." -- Robin Pickering-Iazzi, Professor, Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee "Written in a lively and engaging tone, this provocative and highly original work makes an important contribution to Italian film studies." -- Aine O'Healy, Department of Humanities, Loyola Marymount University
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.
‘Unfinished Business is a thorough, well-researched, and
well-executed study… Renga’s insightful and scrupulous analyses
will surely generate plenty of new debates in Mafia studies, as
well as in film, cultural studies and number of other
disciplines.’
*Journal of Modern Italian Studies , February 2015*
‘There’s no doubt that Renga’s volume is essential reading for
scholars of both Mafia films and Italian cinema more widely.’
*University of Toronto Quarterly vol 84:03:2015*
‘Renga’s film choices are spot-on, and offer a wide variety of
Mafia themed films from the new millennium... It is refreshing to
find a scholar so conscious of film, gender, and gender theory.
*Italica vol 92:04:2015*
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