Unfinished Business

Screening the Italian Mafia in the New Millennium

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by Dana Renga

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > Gangster films

Keywords

Mafia, Italy, 2000s

Publishing date

2013

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 264 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4426-1558-8

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Book Presentation:
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.

See the publisher website: University of Toronto Press