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- Title
Giordana's I cento passi: renegotiating the Mafia codes.
- Authors
Small, Pauline
- Abstract
The 'codes' to which the title of this article refers are the narrative and visual codes of a particular genre model, the Mafia film. The article traces the tradition of Mafia film-making with the purpose of establishing how it gives meaning to Marco Tullio Giordana's film I cento passi, which is shown to be one of a crop of contemporary Italian films that addresses the Mafia question from a new perspective - through humour (Roberto Benigni, Robert Torre) or through emphasis on a little-known protagonist (Scimeca, Giordana). Giordana's film is shown to renegotiate, through intertextual citation, the cinematic codes of Hollywood (Coppola's The Godfather ) and of the European tradition (the films of Francesco Rosi). The article concludes by demonstrating that the impetus behind the current films is found in the climate of anti-Mafia opinion that predominated in Sicily, following the Mafia murders of judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992.
- Subjects
ITALY; GANGSTERS in motion pictures; I Cento Passi (Film); GIORDANA, Marco Tullio; FILMMAKING; ROSI, Francesco, 1922-2015
- Publication
New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 2005, Vol 3, Issue 1, p41
- ISSN
1474-2756
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/ncin.3.1.41/1