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035			_a(Sirsi) i9781780234434
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020			_a9781780234434 _q(hardback)
020			_a1780234430 _q(hardback)
035			_a(OCoLC)891615955
050		4	_aHV 6441 _b.D345 2015
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100	1		_aDainotto, Roberto M. _q(Roberto Maria), _d1962- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Mafia : _ba cultural history / _cRoberto M. Dainotto.
264		1	_aLondon, UK : _bReaktion Books, _c2015.
264		4	_c2015
300			_a239 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aPreface -- Of Rustic Knights and Godfathers: The Origin of the Mafia -- From Corleone to Hollywood -- The Far West is Here -- The Godfather -- Prime Time -- Avatars.
520			_aWhat makes Tony Soprano so likeable? Why would we rather leave the cannoli and take the gun? Do we truly want Scarface's Tony Montana to succeed? Is Michael Corleone a misunderstood hero or a despicable villain? Roberto Dainotto traces the complex and fascinating development of the Mafia: its rural beginnings in Western Sicily; its growth into what has been aptly described as a global multinational of crime; and its parallel evolution in music, print and on the big screen. The book probes the tension between the real Mafia - its brutal and often violent reality - and how we imagine it to be: a mythical assembly of codes of honour, family values and chivalric masochism. Rather than dismissing such Mafia stereotypes as untrue, Dainotto sets out to understand what needs and desires, material and psychic longings, are satisfied by our Mafia fantasies. Exploring the rich array of films, books, television, music and even video games portraying and inspired by the Mafia, this book offers not only a social, economic and political history of the Mafia but a new way of understanding our enduring fascination with what lurks behind the sinister omerta of the family business.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index.
650		0	_aOrganized crime.
650		0	_aMafia in motion pictures.
650		0	_aMafia in literature.
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