De Siciliaanse maffia in woord en beeld: vanuit Leonardo Sciascia naar de film-document. The Sicilian mafia in words and images: from Leonardo Sciascia to the film-document. KU Leuven
This thesis studies the ways in which the Sicilian mafia has been represented in Italy between the 1960’s and 1970’s. Starting from an intermedial perspective the thesis takes into consideration how the subject has developed in Italian literature focusing in particular on Leonardo Sciascia’s writings. More specifically the study compares the literary parameters in his novels to different films which present the criminal phenomenon. In this ...