Unfinished Business : : Screening the Italian Mafia in the New Millennium / / Dana Renga.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Renga, Dana,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Trauma, Gender, and Recent Italian Mafia Cinema --; 1. Oedipal Confl icts in Marco Tullio Giordana's I cento passi --; 2. Honour, Shame, and Vendetta: Pasquale Scimeca's Placido Rizzotto --; 3. Mafi a Woman in a Man's World: Roberta Torre's Angela --; 4. The Mafi a Noir: Paolo Sorrentino's Le conseguenze dell'amore --; 5. Men of Honour, Man of Glass: Stefano Incerti's L'uomo di vetro --; 6. The Female Mob Boss: Edoardo Winspeare's Galantuomini --; 7. Melancholia and the Mob Weepie: Davide Barletti and Lorenzo Conte's Fine pena mai: Paradiso perduto --; 8. Mourning Disavowed: Matteo Garrone's Gomorra --; 9. Recasting Rita Atria in Marco Amenta's La siciliana ribelle --; 10 Trauma Postponed: Claudio Cupellini's Una vita tranquilla --; Epilogue: Why Must Caesar Die? --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442668317; 9783110606812
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442668317
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Dana Renga.

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.