ABSTRACT
“From city to city, state to state, coast to coast, The Godfather is now a phenomenon,” Paramount advertisements claimed in 1972 (qtd. in Lewis 34). With its sequels, The Godfather film trilogy still counts among the most influential popular texts even forty years after the first part’s release. It continues to be discussed and analyzed – not least in scholarly publications and in university seminars – as film text “that captures the transformation of the American Dream into a nightmare of alienation and dissolution” (Quart and Auster 109).
