By Dana Renga
Unfinished enterprise is the 1st publication to envision Italian mafia cinema of the previous decade. It presents insightful analyses of renowned movies that sensationalize violence, scapegoat girls, or repress the homosexuality of male protagonists. Dana Renga examines those works during the lens of gender and trauma thought to teach how the movies interact with the method of mourning and therapeutic mafia-related trauma in Italy.
Unfinished company argues that trauma that has but to be labored via at the nationwide point is displaced onto the characters within the movies into consideration. In a mafia context, woman characters are sacrificed and non-normative sexual identities are suppressed with a view to solidify conventional modes of viewer id and to guarantee narrative closure, all in order that identical to the country is left unblemished.
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