Unfinished business: screening the Italian Mafia in the new millennium
"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 gende...
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| Tipo de documento: | Print Libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Toronto [u.a.]
University of Toronto Press
2013
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| En: | Año: 2013 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag) Klappentext (Verlag) |
| Disponibilidad en Tübingen: | Disponible en Tübingen. UB: KB 20 A 6496 |
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| Sumario: | "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."--pub. desc |
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| Notas: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Descripción Física: | VIII, 256 S. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781442647480 9781442615588 1442647485 1442615583 |