Mafia Movies: A Reader

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Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Part One. Setting the Scene 1 The Corleones at Home and Abroad 2 Gender and Violence: Four Themes in the Everyday World of Mafia Wives Part Two. American Mafia Movies and Television: The Corleones at Home and Abroad 3 Wallace McCutcheon’s The Black Hand: A Different Version of a Biograph Kidnapping 4 ‘Most Thrilling Subjects’: D.W. Griffith and the Biograph Revenge Films 5 Ethnicity and the Classical Gangster Film: Mervyn LeRoy’s Little Caesar and Howard Hawks’s Scarface 6 Playing Good Italian/Bad Italian on ABC’s The Untouchables 7 Prelude to The Godfather: Martin Ritt’s The Brotherhood 8 Michael Corleone’s Tie: Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather 9 Nihilism and Mafiositá in Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets 10 Thematic Patterns in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather: Part II 11 The Sexual Politics of Loyalty in John Huston’s Prizzi’s Honor 12 Between Postmodern Parody and Generic Hybridization: The Gangsters of Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables 13 The Bandit, the Gangster, and the American Army Shorts: Michael Cimino’s The Sicilian 14 Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas: Hybrid Storytelling between Realism and Formalism 15 Redemption in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather: Part III 16 Narrating the Mafia, Las Vegas, and Ethnicity in Martin Scorsese’s Casino 17 ‘Nothing Romantic about It’: Gender and the Legacy of Crime in Abel Ferrara’s The Funeral 18 Inside the Mafia: Mike Newell’s Donnie Brasco 19 Family Therapy: Harold Ramis’s Analyze This and the Evolution of the Gangster Genre 20 Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, or the Quest for a Departed (Ethnic) Identity Photos follow pages 144 and 368 21 When Words Can Kill: David Chase’s The Sopranos 22 ‘Don’t Stop Believin’, Don’t Stop …’: (De)Structuring Expectations in the Final Season of The Sopranos 23 ‘History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Does Rhyme’: Fictionalizing History in Boardwalk Empire 24 Mob Wives: Exploitation or Empowerment? Part Three. Italian Mafia Movies and Television: Resistance and Myth 25 Which Law Is the Father’s? Gender and Generic Oscillation in Pietro Germi’s In the Name of the Law 26 The Visible, Unexposed: Francesco Rosi’s Salvatore Giuliano 27 Modernity, Mafia Style: Alberto Lattuada’s Mafioso 28 Francesco Rosi’s Hands over the City: A Contemporary Perspective on the Camorra 29 Prototypes of the Mafia: Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard 30 The Failure of the Intellectual: Elio Petri’s Filming of Leonardo Sciascia’s To Each His Own 31 Damiano Damiani’s The Day of the Owl: A Western Flirtation 32 Smaller and Larger Families: Lina Wertmüller’s The Seduction of Mimi 33 Deconstructing the Enigma: Logical Investigations in Francesco Rosi’s Lucky Luciano 34 Power as Such: The Idea of the Mafia in Francesco Rosi’s Illustrious Corpses 35 Marco Risi’s Forever Mary: Desperate Lives Converge in Sicilia ‘Non Bedda’ 36 Threads of Political Violence in Italy’s Spiderweb: Giorgio Ambrosoli’s Murder in Michele Placido’s A Bourgeois Hero 37 Sacrifice, Sacrament, and the Body in Ricky Tognazzi’s La scorta 38 Pasquale Scimeca’s Placido Rizzotto: A Different View of Corleone 39 Marco Tullio Giordana’s The Hundred Steps: The Biopic as Political Cinema 40 Roberta Torre’s Angela: The Mafia and the ‘Woman’s Film’ 41 Organized Crime and Unfulfilled Promises in Gabriele Salvatores’ I’m Not Scared 42 Growing Up Camorrista: Antonio and Andrea Frazzi’s Certi bambini 43 Lipstick and Chocolate: Paolo Sorrentino’s The Consequences of Love 44 The In(di)visibility of the Mafia, Politics, and Ethics in Bianchi and Nerazzini’s The Mafia Is White 45 Marco Turco’s Excellent Cadavers: An Italian Tragedy 46 Dispatches from Hell: Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah 47 From Comedy to Commemoration: Pierfrancesco Diliberto’s La mafia uccide solo d’estate 48 Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza’s Salvo: The Sound of Redemption in an Infernal Landscape 49 Of Renegades and Game Players: Shifting Sympathies in Gomorra: la serie Part Four. Italy’s Other Mafias in Film and on Television: A Roundtable 50 Introduction – The Banda della Magliana, the Camorra, the ’Ndrangheta, and the Sacra Corona Unita: The Mafia On Screen beyond the Cosa Nostra 51 Historicizing Italy’s Other Mafias: Some Considerations 52 Romanzo criminale: Roma Caput Violandi 53 Romanzo criminale: la serie 54 Toxic Tables: The Representation of Food in Camorra Films 55 The New Mafia in Una vita tranquilla 56 Soap Operas 57 Response #1 58 Response #2 59 Response #3 60 Conclusion Part Five. Double Takes The Godfather 61 The Godfather: Performance and Stardom 62 The Godfather: Adaptation 63 The Godfather: Gender 64 The Godfather: Scene Analysis – Don Vito’s Office 65 The Godfather: Scene Analysis – The Baptism/Murder 66 The Godfather: Scene Analysis – The Finale The Sopranos 67 The Sopranos: Antiheroic Masculinity 68 The Sopranos: Gender 69 The Sopranos: (Sub)Urban Space 70 The Sopranos: Episode 1.01, ‘The Sopranos’ 71 The Sopranos: Episode 1.05, ‘College’ 72 The Sopranos: Episode 2.04, ‘Commendatori’ Romanzo criminale 73 Romanzo criminale: Performance and Stardom 74 Romanzo criminale: Adaptation/Transmedia 75 Romanzo criminale: Gender 76 Romanzo criminale: Politics and Terrorism 77 Romanzo criminale: Scene Analysis – The Aldo Moro Kidnapping 78 Romanzo criminale: Scene Analysis – The Bologna Bombing Gomorrah 79 Gomorrah: Gender 80 Gomorrah: Metacinematic References 81 Gomorrah: Urban Space 82 Gomorrah: Scene Analysis – Opening Sequence 83 Gomorrah: Scene Analysis – The Initiation of Totò 84 Gomorrah: Scene Analysis – The Finale Filmography Selected Bibliography Contributors