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Unfinished Business: Screening the Italian Mafia in the New Millennium (Toronto Italian Studies) - Hardcover
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.
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About the Author:
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.
Review:
‘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.
(Ryan Calabretta-Sajder Italica vol 92:04:2015)‘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.’
(Lara Santoro 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.’
(Pasquale Iannone University of Toronto Quarterly vol 84:03:2015)"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1442647485
- ISBN 13 9781442647480
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages264
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