Mafia Movies: A Reader Book

PART ONE: Setting the Scene

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2. Introduction: 'The Corleones at Home and Abroad'
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4. Gender and Violence: 'The Everyday World Of Mafia Wives: Four Themes'
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PART TWO: American Mafia Movies: The Corleones at Home and Abroad

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2. Wallace McCutchen's The Black Hand: a Different Version of a Biograph Kidnapping
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4. "Most Thrilling Subjects": D.W. Griffith and the Biograph Revenge Films Ethnicity and the Classical Gangster
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6. Film: Mervyn LeRoy's Little Caesar and Howard Hawks' Scarface
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8. Playing Good Italian/Bad Italian in ABC's The Untouchables
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10. Prelude to The Godfather: Martin Ritt's The Brotherhood
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12. Micheal Corleone's Tie: Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather
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14. Nihilism and Mafiositá in Scorsese's Mean Streets
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16. Thematic Patterns in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather: Part II
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18. The Sexual Politics of Loyalty in John Huston's Prizzi's Honor
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20. Between Postmodern Parody and Generic Hybridization: The Gangsters of Brian De Palma's The Untouchables
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22. The Bandit, the Gangster, and the American Army Shorts: Michael Cimino's The Sicilian
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24. Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas: Hybrid Storytelling between Realism and Formalism
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26. Redemption in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather: Part III
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28. "Nothing Romantic about It": Gender and the Legacy of Crime in Abel Ferrara's The Funeral
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30. Inside the Mafia: Mike Newell's Donnie Brasco'
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32. 'Martin Scorsese's The Departed, Or the Quest for a (Departed) Ethnic Identity
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34. When Words Can Kill: David Chase's The Sopranos
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36. Don't Stop Believing, Don't Stop... (De)Structuring Expectations in the Final Season of The Sopranos
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PART THREE: Italian Mafia Movies: Myth and Resistence

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2. Which Law is the Father's? Gender and Generic Oscillation in Pietro Germi's In the Name of the Law
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4. The Visible, Unexposed: Francesco Rosi's Salvatore Giuliano
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6. Modernity, Mafia Style: Alberto Lattuada's Il Mafioso
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8. Francesco Rosi's Hands Over the City: A Contemporary Perspective on the Camorra
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10. Prototypes of the Mafia: Luchino Visconti's The Leopard
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12. To Each His Own: The Failure of the Intellectual. From Book to Film; Leonardo Sciascia, Elio Petri
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14. Damiano Damiani's The Day of the Owl: A Western Flirtation
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16. Smaller and Larger Families: Lina Wertmuller's The Seduction of Mimi
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18. Deconstructing the Enigma: Logical Investigations in Francesco Rosi's Lucky Luciano
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20. Power as Such: The Idea of the Mafia in Franceso Rosi's Illustrious Corpses
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22. Marco Risi's Forever Mery: Desperate Lives Converge in Sicilia "non bedda"
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24. Threads of Political Violence in Italy's Spiderweb: Giorgio Ambrosoli's Murder in Michele Placido's A BourgeoisHero
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26. Sacrifice, Sacrament and the Body in Ricky Tognazzi's La Scorta
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28. Pasquale Scimeca's Placido Rizzotto: A Different View of Corleone
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30. Marco Tullio Giordana's The Hundred Steps: The Biopic as Political Cinema
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32. Roberta Torre's Angela: The Mafia and the "Woman's Film"
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34. Organized Crime and Unfulfilled Promises in Gabriele Salvatores' I'm Not Scared
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36. Growing Up Camorrista: Antonio and Andrea Frazzi's Certi bambini
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38. Lipstick and Chocolate: Paolo Sorrentino's The Consequences of Love
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40. The In(di)visibility of the Mafia, Politics, and Ethics in The Mafia is White by Stefano Maria Bianchi and Alberto Nerazzini
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42. Marco Turco's Excellent Cadavers: An Italian Tragedy
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44. Dispatches from Hell: Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah
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History and Criticism