Unfinished Business

Screening the Italian Mafia in the New Millennium

Nonfiction, History, Italy, Entertainment, Film, History & Criticism, Performing Arts
Cover of the book Unfinished Business by Dana Renga, University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
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Author: Dana Renga ISBN: 9781442668324
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Publication: December 6, 2013
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Dana Renga
ISBN: 9781442668324
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Publication: December 6, 2013
Imprint:
Language: English

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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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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