Italian motherhood on screen / Giovanna Faleschini Lerner, Maria Elena D'Amelio, editors.
Lerner, Giovanna Faleschini, 1972- editor.; D'Amelio, Maria Elena, 1978- editor.
2017
PN1995.9.W6 I875 2017
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Title Italian motherhood on screen / Giovanna Faleschini Lerner, Maria Elena D'Amelio, editors.
ISBN 9783319566757 (PDF ebook)
331956675X (PDF ebook)
9783319566740 (print)
3319566741 (print)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56675-7
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave MacMillan, [2017]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 293 pages) : color illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-56675-7 doi
Call Number PN1995.9.W6 I875 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43/65220945
Summary "This book is the first scholarly analysis that considers the specificity of situated experiences of the maternal from a variety of theoretical perspectives. From "Fertility Day" to "Family Day," the concept of motherhood has been at the center of the public debate in contemporary Italy, partly in response to the perceived crisis of the family, the economic crisis, and the crisis of national identity, provoked by the forces of globalization and migration, secularization, and the instability of labor markets. Through essays by an international cohort of established and emerging scholars, this volume aims to read these shifts in cinematic terms. How does Italian cinema represent, negotiate, and elaborate changing definitions of motherhood in narrative, formal, and stylistic terms? The essays in this volume focus on the figures of working mothers, women who opt for a child-free adulthood, single mothers, ambivalent mothers, lost mothers, or imperfect mothers, who populate contemporary screen narratives."--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references, filmography (pages 275-286) and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed November 15, 2019).
Added Author Lerner, Giovanna Faleschini, 1972- editor.
D'Amelio, Maria Elena, 1978- editor.
Series Italian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Introduction: Italian Motherhood on Screen / Maria Elena D'Amelio, Giovanna Faleschini Lerner
Part I Maternal Ambivalence. In the Name of the Mother: From Fascist Melodrama to the Maternal Horrific in the Films of Dario Argento / Marcia Landy ; Maternal Ambivalence in Contemporary Italian Cinema / Bernadette Luciano, Susanna Scarparo ; 'A Bad Mother and a Small Heap of Bones:' Maternal Indifference in Alessandro Capone's L'Amore Nascosto / Claudia Karagoz
Part II Lost Mothers. Rich Wives, Poor Mothers: Can a Matriarch Be a Mother? / Giorgio Galbussera ; Mothers at a Loss: Identity and Mourning in La Sconosciuta and Milyang / Francesco Pascuzzi ; 'Acquaintance with Grief': Filmmaking as Mourning and Recognition in Nanni Moretti's Mia Madre / Stefania Benini
Part III Motherhood and the Body Politics. Francesca Comencini's Single Moms and Italian Family Law / Maria Letizia Bellocchio ; Gy-neology and Genealogy of a Female Filmmaker: The Case of Susanna Nicchiarelli's Films / Silvia Carlorosi ; Unnatural Child Birth: Naples, the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit, and the Blank Space of Possibility in Francesca Comencini's Lo Spazio Bianco / Millicent Marcus ; Liquid Maternity in Italian Migration Cinema / Giovanna Faleschini Lerner
Part IV Transmedia Motherhood. Voicing Italian Childfree Women on New Media: The Lunàdigas Project / Giusy Di Filippo ; Motherhood 2.0: Una Mamma Imperfetta and the Representation of 'Imperfect Motherhood' in New Media
Appendix: Motherhood on Screen: A Film Catalog from 1945 to the Present.

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