The Power Placebo

After watching various films throughout the course, I have witnessed the role of women come change relatively a small amount. The primary role that women played was that as a mother or as a girlfriend to someone in the mafia and she typically has no power and no say....

Criminal Women

The representation of women in crime films varies.  Sometimes they have positions of restricted power, like Angela in the film Angela, and other times they are mantelpiece figures like Kay in The Godfather.  Angela represents active participation in the life of crime,...

Representations of mafia women

Representations of women throughout the Italian mafia movies have hardly evolved throughout time. Most of the women are background characters who do not advance the plot in any way. If anything, they serve as motivation for the main male character. However, in a few...

Stereotype or not?

Women and mafia, mafia and women, either one way or another women seem frequently be involved with the Mafia. Throughout the semester, we have seen movies and episodes involving different types of organized crime in Italy and how women have assumed different roles in...

From “Mother” to “Godmother”

The representation of women vary across different films in order to reflect the reality of the organization represented in the film in question. Across the semester we have examined different films detailing the activities of four different organizations: la cosa...