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Beteiligte: Small, Pauline
In: New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 3, 2005, 1, S. 41-54
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Intellect
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Umfang: 41-54
ISSN: 1474-2756
2040-0578
DOI: 10.1386/ncin.3.1.41/1
veröffentlicht in: New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: Intellect (CrossRef)
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<jats:p>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 <jats:italic>I cento passi</jats:italic>, 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 <jats:italic>The Godfather</jats:italic>) 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.</jats:p>