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MAFIA MOVIES A Reader Second Edition EDITED BY DANA RENGA MAFIA MOVIES A Reader Second Edition UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London © University of Toronto Press 2019 Toronto Buffalo London utorontopress.com Printed in Canada ISBN 978-1-4875-0023-8 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4875-2013-7 (paper) First Edition 2011 Second Edition 2019 Printed on acid-free paper with vegetable-based inks. Toronto Italian Studies ___________________________________________________________________________ Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: Mafia movies : a reader / edited by Dana Renga. Names: Renga, Dana, 1971– editor. Series: Toronto Italian studies. Description: Second edition. | Series statement: Toronto Italian studies | Includes filmography. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: Canadiana 20190091746 | ISBN 9781487520137 (softcover) | ISBN 9781487500238 (hardcover) Subjects: LCSH: Mafia in motion pictures. | LCSH: Gangster films – United States – History and criticism. | LCSH: Gangster films – Italy – History and criticism. Classification: LCC PN1995.9.M23 M34 2019 | DDC 791.43/6556—dc23 ___________________________________________________________________________ University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario. Dedicated to JoAnne Ruvoli (1968–2018) Contents Acknowledgments Part One. Setting the Scene 1 The Corleones at Home and Abroad DANA RENGA 2 Gender and Violence: Four Themes in the Everyday World of Mafia Wives JANE SCHNEIDER AND PETER SCHNEIDER Part Two. American Mafia Movies and Television: The Corleones at Home and Abroad 3 Wallace McCutcheon’s The Black Hand: A Different Version of a Biograph Kidnapping VINCENZO MAGGITTI 4 ‘Most Thrilling Subjects’: D.W. Griffith and the Biograph Revenge Films JOANNE RUVOLI 5 Ethnicity and the Classical Gangster Film: Mervyn LeRoy’s Little Caesar and Howard Hawks’s Scarface NORMA BOUCHARD 6 Playing Good Italian/Bad Italian on ABC’s The Untouchables JONATHAN J. CAVALLERO 7 Prelude to The Godfather: Martin Ritt’s The Brotherhood ROBERT CASILLO
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