Italian Motherhood on Screen

ISBN-13: 9783319859705 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 293 str.

Giovanna Faleschini Lerner; Maria Elena D'Amelio

Spis treści

Introduction: Italian Motherhood on Screen. Maria Elena D’Amelio and Giovanna Faleschini Lerner.- 2: In the Name of the Mother. Marcia Landy.- 3: Maternal Ambivalence in Contemporary Italian Cinema. Bernadette Luciano and Susanna Scarparo.- 4: ‘A Bad Mother and a Small Heap of Bones:’ Claudia Karagoz.- 5: Rich Wives, Poor Mothers: Giorgio Galbussera.- 6: Mothers at a Loss: Francesco Pascuzzi.- 7: Acquaintance with Grief: Stefania Benini.- 8: Francesca Comencini’s Single Moms and Italian Family Law.  Letizia Bellocchio.- 9: Gy-neology and Genealogy of a Female Filmmaker. Silvia Carlorosi .- 10: Unnatural Child Birth: Millicent Marcus.- 11: Liquid Maternity in Italian Migration Cinema.  Giovanna Faleschini Lerner.- 12: Voicing Italian Childfree Women on New Media: Giusy Di Filippo.- 13: Motherhood 2.0: Maria Elena D’Amelio .- Appendix. Motherhood on Screen: A Film Catalog from 1945 to the Present: Gina Mangravite,Maria Elena D’Amelio, Giovanna Faleschini Lerner.- Index.

O autorze

Giovanna Faleschini Lerner is Associate Professor of Italian at Franklin & Marshall College, USA. She is the author of The Painter as Writer: Carlo Levi’s Visual Poetics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and has published numerous articles and book chapters on twentieth-century and contemporary Italian literature and film.

Maria Elena D’Amelio is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of the Republic of San Marino, San Marino. She is the author of Ercole, il divo (2012), and has published extensively on genre cinema, stardom, and film history.