2. Honour, Shame, and Vendetta: Pasquale Scimeca’s Placido Rizzotto

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Trauma, Gender, and Recent Italian Mafia Cinema 1
5. 1. Oedipal Confl icts in Marco Tullio Giordana’s I cento passi 21
6. 2. Honour, Shame, and Vendetta: Pasquale Scimeca’s Placido Rizzotto 36
7. 3. Mafi a Woman in a Man’s World: Roberta Torre’s Angela 51
8. 4. The Mafi a Noir: Paolo Sorrentino’s Le conseguenze dell’amore 65
9. 5. Men of Honour, Man of Glass: Stefano Incerti’s L’uomo di vetro 80
10. 6. The Female Mob Boss: Edoardo Winspeare’s Galantuomini 99
11. 7. Melancholia and the Mob Weepie: Davide Barletti and Lorenzo Conte’s Fine pena mai: Paradiso perduto 116
12. 8. Mourning Disavowed: Matteo Garrone’s Gomorra 134
13. 9. Recasting Rita Atria in Marco Amenta’s La siciliana ribelle 150
14. 10 Trauma Postponed: Claudio Cupellini’s Una vita tranquilla 165
15. Epilogue: Why Must Caesar Die? 181
16. Notes 191
17. Works Cited 223
18. Index 245