Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-398) and filmography (p. [387]-390).
Contents:
Nihilism and Mafiositá in Martin Scorsese's Mean streets / Introduction : The Corleones at home and abroad / Pellegrino D'Acierno ; Gender and Violence : four themes in the everyday world of mafia wives / Peter Schneider and Jane Schneider -- American mafia movies : the Corleones at home and abroad. Wallace McCutchen's The Black Hand : a different version of a biograph kidnapping / Vincenzo Maggitti ; Most thrilling subjects : D.W. Griffith and the biograph revenge films / JoAnne Ruvoli ; Ethnicity and the classical gangster film : Mervyn LeRoy's Little Caesar and Howard Hawks' Scarface / Norma Bouchard ; Playing good Italian/ bad Italian in ABC's The untouchables / Jonathan Cavallero ; Prelude to The Godfather : Martin Ritt's The brotherhood / Robert Casillo ; Micheal Corleone's tie : Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather / Anthony Tamburri ; Nihilism and Mafiositá in Martin Scorsese's Mean streets / Pellegrino D'Acierno ; David Chase's The sopranos / Franco Ricci ; The sexual politics of loyalty in John Huston's Prizzi's honor / Rebecca Bauman ; Between postmodern parody and generic hybridization : the gangsters of Brian De Palma's The untouchables / Norma Bouchard ; The bandit, the gangster, and the American Army shorts : Michael Cimino's The Sicilian / Chiara Mazzucchelli ; Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas : hybrid storytelling between realism and formalism / Fulvio Orsitto ; Redemption in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather : John Paul Russo. Nothing romantic about it : gender and the legacy of crime in Abel Ferrara's The funeral / Lara Santoro ; Inside the mafia : Mike Newell's Donnie Brasco / Robert Casillo ; Martin Scorsese's The departed, or the quest for a departed ethnic identity / Margherita Heyer-Caput ; When words can kill : David Chase's The sopranos / Franco Ricci ; Deconstructing the enigma : Thomas Harrison ; Italian Mafia movies : myth and resistance. Which law is the father's : gender and generic oscillation in Pietro Germi's In the name of the law / Danielle Hipkins ; The visible, unexposed : Francesco Rosi's Salvatore Giuliano / Laura Wittman ; Modernity, mafia style : Alberto Lattuada's Il mafioso / Nelson Moe ; Francesco Rosi's Hands over the city : a contemporary perspective on the Camorra / Anna Paparcone ; Prototypes of the mafia : Luchino Visconti's The leopard / Elizabeth Leake ; The failure of the intellectual : Elio Petri's filming of Leonardo Sciascia's To each his own / Daniela Bini ; Damiano Damiani's The day of the owl : a Western flirtation / Piero Garofalo ; Smaller and larger families : Lina Wertmuller's The seduction of Mimi / Thomas Harrison ; Deconstructing the enigma : Antonio and Andrea Frazzi's Certi bambini / Allison Cooper ; Power as such : the idea of the mafia in Franceso Rosi's Illustrious corpses / Alan O'Leary ; Marco Risi's Forever Mary : desperate lives converge in Sicilia non bedda / George De Stefano ; Threads of political violence in Italy's spiderweb : Giorgio Ambrosoli's murder in Michele Placido's A Bourgeois Hero / Carlo Testa ; Sacrifice, sacrament, and the body in Ricky Tognazzi's La scorta / Myriam Ruthenburg ; Pasquale Scimeca's Placido Rizzotto : a different view of Corleone / Amy Boylan ; Marco Tullio Giordana's The hundred steps : the biopic as political cinema / George De Stefano ; Roberta Torre's Angela : the mafia and the woman's film / Catherine O'Rawe ; Organized crime and unfulfilled promises in Gabriele Salvatores' I'm not scared / Michael O'Riley ; Growing up Camorrista : Antonio and Andrea Frazzi's Certi bambini / Allison Cooper ; Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah / Paolo Sorrentino's The consequences of love / Pierpaolo Antonello. The in(di)visibility of the mafia, politics, and ethics in Bianchi and Nerazzini's The mafia is white / Robin Pickering-Iazzi ; Marco Turco's Excellent cadavers : an Italian tragedy / Maddalena Spazzini ; Dispatches from Hell : Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah / Pierpaolo Antonello.
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