References
Unless otherwise specified, translations are by the author.
Preface
1 Sam Roberts, âMario Cuomo, Vocal Foe of Italian Stereotyping, Finally Sees The Godfatherâ, New York Times (21 October 2013), p. 12.
2 Tracy Wilkinson, âLuck Finally Runs Out for Italyâs Boss of Bossesâ, Los Angeles Times (12 April 2006), pp. 7â8.
3 Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York, 2006), p. 250.
ONE Of Rustic Knights and Godfathers: The Origin of the Mafia
1 Cited in Fred Baker and Ross Firestone, Movie People (New York, 1972), p. 53.
2 Francis Ford Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola: Interviews, ed. Gene D. Phillips and Rodney Hill (Jackson, 2004), p. 169.
3 Jon Lewis, âIf History Has Taught Us Anything . . . Francis Coppola, Paramount Studios, and The Godfather Parts I, II, and IIIâ, in Francis Ford Coppolaâs The Godfather Trilogy, ed. Nick Browne (Cambridge, 2000), p. 47.
4 Phoebe Poon, âThe Corleone Chronicles: Revisiting The Godfather Films as Trilogyâ, Journal of Popular Film and Television (2006), p. 193.
5 Bob Mondello, âGodfather III: A Staggering Sagaâ, All Things Considered (24 December 1990).
6 Naomi Greene, âFamily Ceremonies: or, Opera in The Godfather Trilogyâ, in Francis Ford Coppolaâs The Godfather Trilogy, ed. Browne, p. 133; Marcia J. Citron, âOperatic Style and Structure in Coppolaâs Godfather Trilogyâ, Musical Quarterly, LXXXVII/3 (2004), p. 452; George De Stefano, An Offer We Canât Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America (New York, 2006), p. 129.
7 André Bazin, What is Cinema?, trans. Hugh Gray (Berkeley, CA, 2004), I, p. 25.
8 Sergei Eisenstein, Film Form: Essays in Film Theory, trans. Jay Leyda (New York, 1949), p. 49.
9 Jonathan J. Cavallero, Hollywoodâs Italian American Filmmakers: Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino (Urbana, IL, 2011), p. 120.
10 Citron, âOperatic Styleâ, p. 452; Greene, âFamily Ceremoniesâ, p. 135.
11 John Paul Russo, âRedemption in Francis Ford Coppola The Godfather: Part IIIâ, in Mafia Movies: A Reader, ed. Dana Renga (Toronto, 2011), pp. 153â4.
12 Citron, âOperatic Styleâ, p. 438.
13 Greene, âFamily Ceremoniesâ, p. 140.
14 Cited in Lars Franke, âThe Godfather Part III: Film, Opera, and the Generation of Meaningâ, in Changing Tunes: The Use of Pre-existing Music in Film, ed. Phil Powrie and Robynn Jeananne (Aldershot, 2006), p. 31.
15 Vera Dika, âThe Representation of Ethnicity in The Godfatherâ, in Francis Ford Coppolaâs The Godfather Trilogy, ed. Browne, pp. 82â92.
16 Michele Colombo, Il romanzo dellâOttocento (Bologna, 2011), p. 102.
17 Benedetto Croce, La letteratura della nuova Italia (Bari, 1964), IV, p. 332.
18 Giovanni Verga, Luigi Capuana and Gino Raya, Lettere a Luigi Capuana (Florence, 1975), p. 31.
19 Ibid., p. 49.
20 Giovanni Verga, Tutte le novelle, ed. Carla Riccardi (Milan, 1979), p. 202.
21 Gino Tellini, Il romanzo italiano dellâOttocento e Novecento (Milan, 1998), p. 180.
22 Cited in Giacomo Debenedetti, Verga e il naturalismo (Milan, 1993), p. 318.
23 Verga, Capuana and Raya, Lettere a Luigi Capuana, p. 114.
24 Ibid., p. 114.
25 Cited in Claudia Petraccone, Le due civiltĂĄ. Settentrionali e meridionali nella storia dâItalia dal 1860 al 1914 (Bari, 2000), p. 166.
26 Verga, Novelle, p. 130.
27 Piero Bevilacqua, Breve storia dellâItalia meridionale dallâOttocento a oggi (Bari, 1993), p. 34.
28 Salvatore Scarpino, La guerra cafona. Il brigantaggio meridionale contro lo Stato unitario (Milan, 2005), p. 10.
29 Christopher Duggan, A Concise History of ltaly (Cambridge, 1984), p. 140.
30 Salvatore Lupo, History of the Mafia, trans. Anthony Shugaar (New York, 2009), pp. 31â2.
31 Petraccone, Le due civiltĂ , p. 57.
32 Daniel Pick, Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, c. 1848âc. 1918 (Cambridge, 1989), pp. 109â54.
33 Salvatore Cafiero, Questione meridionale e unitĂ nazionale 1861â1995 (Rome, 1996), pp. 32â5.
34 Pasquale Villari, Le lettere meridionali ed altri scritti sulla questione sociale in Italia (Florence, 187...