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Italian Americans in FilmThe Eclipse of the Godfather’s Garden: From the Agromafia to the Money Mafia

Italian Americans in Film: The Eclipse of the Godfather’s Garden: From the Agromafia to the Money... [The chapter analyzes the first two movies of the Godfather trilogy from an ecocritical perspective. This original vantage point allows to examine the differences between the two godfathers (Vito and Michael Corleone) not so much in terms of tradition vs. Americanization but focusing on the transition from agromafia—Mafia involvement in the food sector—to money mafia, marked by its collusion with financial capitalism. Vito’s trajectory from the fields of Sicily to the garden of his suburban mansion in Long Island involves an expansion of the Corleone family’s carbon footprint and an emphasis on conspicuous consumption, which mirrors the accelerating pace of consumer culture and resource use in the Western world after WWII. In this sense, if the death of Vito in his tomato garden symbolizes the shift from agromafia to the Nevada-based money mafia, the final sequence of The Godfather Part II, in which Michael sists alone on the shores of Lake Tahoe can be read as a comment on the anthropocentric hubris of conquering and controlling the environment.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Italian Americans in FilmThe Eclipse of the Godfather’s Garden: From the Agromafia to the Money Mafia

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series
Editors: Fioretti, Daniele; Orsitto, Fulvio
Past, Elena
Italian Americans in Film — Dec 1, 2022
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
ISBN
978-3-031-06464-7
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195 –212
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-06465-4_10
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Abstract

[The chapter analyzes the first two movies of the Godfather trilogy from an ecocritical perspective. This original vantage point allows to examine the differences between the two godfathers (Vito and Michael Corleone) not so much in terms of tradition vs. Americanization but focusing on the transition from agromafia—Mafia involvement in the food sector—to money mafia, marked by its collusion with financial capitalism. Vito’s trajectory from the fields of Sicily to the garden of his suburban mansion in Long Island involves an expansion of the Corleone family’s carbon footprint and an emphasis on conspicuous consumption, which mirrors the accelerating pace of consumer culture and resource use in the Western world after WWII. In this sense, if the death of Vito in his tomato garden symbolizes the shift from agromafia to the Nevada-based money mafia, the final sequence of The Godfather Part II, in which Michael sists alone on the shores of Lake Tahoe can be read as a comment on the anthropocentric hubris of conquering and controlling the environment.]

Published: Dec 1, 2022

Keywords: Godfather I; Godfather II; Ecocriticism; Agromafia; Anthropocene; Consumption

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