TY  - GEN
T1  - Unfinished business : screening the Italian Mafia in the new millennium
T2  - Toronto Italian studies.
A1  - Renga, Dana, 1971-
LA  - English
PP  - Toronto Ontario
PB  - University of Toronto Press
YR  - 2013
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn863054083
AB  - "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
AB  - 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
OP  - 256
CN  - PN1995.9.M23 R454 2013eb
SN  - 9781442668317
SN  - 1442668318
KW  - Gangster films : Italy : History and criticism.
KW  - Mafia in motion pictures.
KW  - Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
KW  - Motion pictures and women.
KW  - Gangster films : Italy.
KW  - Films de gangsters : Italie : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Mafia au cinéma.
KW  - Traumatisme psychique au cinéma.
KW  - Cinéma et femmes.
KW  - Films de gangsters : Italie.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Reference.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : History & Criticism.
KW  - Gangster films
KW  - Mafia in motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures and women
KW  - Psychic trauma in motion pictures
KW  - Italy
KW  - Mafia : Motiv
KW  - Film
KW  - Italien
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -