Masters: Gommorah 1

The influence of American culture on Italian culture is shown in Salviano's _Gommorah_. After a couple of centuries of European and Americans writing about the presence of Italy corrupting expatriates, America itself is rooting itself in Italy itself. With half of the gangsters named in the novel are named after characters from tv shows, Angelina Jolie being the recipient of a handsewn masterpiece of a dress from a disfranchised worker, and Coca Cola products being injested by everyone, America's influence and demand for products and exports from Italy has caused the country and people to become and live in a post-capitalist wasteland where the old criminalia has mixed and tranmorphed into an amalgamation of old world warlords with the glamorous depiction of criminals in American films such as _Goodfellas_, _The Godfather_, or (ironically) Brian De Palma's _Scarface_ which features an Italian American actor playing a Cuban in a remake of a film about an Italian American monster.