Title Statements
- Full title :Mafia movies : a reader / edited by Dana Renga.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:cop. 2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Toronto Press
- Place of Publication:Toronto
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:cop. 2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiv, 400 p., [16] p. di tav. : : ritr. ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780802099693, 0802099696
- oclc:ocn878775668
- Dewey Decimal:364.106
Table of Contents
Setting the scene. Introduction -- The Corleones at home and abroad / Dana Renga -- 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 -- Thematic patterns in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather : part II / John Paul Russo -- 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…
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