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Unfinished Business is the first book to examine Italian mafia cinema of the past decade.
List of contents
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
AngelaChapter 4: The Mafia Noir: Paolo Sorrentino’s
Le conseguenze dell’amoreChapter 5: Men of Honor, Man of Glass: Stefano Incerti’s
L’uomo di vetroChapter 6: The Female Mob Boss: Edoardo Winspeare’s
GalantuominiChapter 7: Melancholia and the Mob Weepie: Davide Barletti and Lorenzo Conte’s
Fine pena mai: paradiso perdutoChapter 8: Mourning Disavowed: Matteo Garrone’s
GomorraChapter 9: Recasting Rita Atria in Marco Amenta’s
La siciliana ribelleChapter 10: Trauma Postponed: Claudio Cupellini’s
Una vita tranquillaEpilogue: Why Must Caesar Die?
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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.
Summary
Unfinished Business is the first book to examine Italian mafia cinema of the past decade.
