ISBN:
9783319566757
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (296 pages)
Series Statement:
Italian and Italian American Studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Italian motherhood on screen
Parallel Title:
Print version Faleschini Lerner, Giovanna Italian Motherhood on Screen
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Mothers ; Italy
;
Motherhood in motion pictures
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Italien
;
Film
;
Italienerin
;
Mutterschaft
;
Geschichte 1970-2016
Abstract:
"Acknowledgements" -- "Contents" -- "About the Editors" -- "List of Figures" -- "Chapter 1 Introduction: Italian Motherhood on Screen " -- "Works Cited" -- "Part I Maternal Ambivalence" -- "Chapter 2 In the Name of the Mother: From Fascist Melodrama to the Maternal Horrific in the Films of Dario Argento " -- "Fascism, Maternity, and the Nation" -- "Neorealism, Dark Melodramas, and Suffering Mothers" -- "Dario Argento and the Giallo" -- "Profondo Rosso and Cinematic Mothers" -- "Mothers, Medical Malpractice, and Murder: Fenomena and Trauma" -- "Allegory and the Baroque: The Mothersâ Trilogy" -- "Artaudâs Theater of Cruelty and the Neo-Baroque" -- "Conclusion" -- "Works Cited" -- "Chapter 3 Maternal Ambivalence in Contemporary Italian Cinema " -- "Tutto parla di te" -- "Quando la notte" -- "Conclusion" -- "Works Cited" -- "Chapter 4 âA Bad Mother and a Small Heap of Bones:â Maternal Indifference in Alessandro Caponeâs LâAmore Nascosto " -- "An Unnatural Mother" -- "A Hateful Daughter" -- "Framing the Maternal" -- "Conclusion" -- "Works Cited" -- "Part II Lost Mothers" -- "Chapter 5 Rich Wives, Poor Mothers: Can a Matriarch Be a Mother? " -- "Works Cited" -- "Chapter 6 Mothers at a Loss: Identity and Mourning in La Sconosciuta and Milyang " -- "Works Cited" -- "Chapter 7 âAcquaintance with Griefâ: Filmmaking as Mourning and Recognition in Nanni Morettiâs Mia Madre " -- "Works Cited" -- "Part III Motherhood and the Body Politics" -- "Chapter 8 Francesca Comenciniâs Single Moms and Italian Family Law " -- "Realistic Fairy Tales in the Feminine Voice" -- "Women, Mothers, the Law" -- "Family Law in The White Space" -- "Works Cited" -- "Chapter 9 Gy-neology and Genealogy of a Female Filmmaker: The Case of Susanna Nicchiarelliâs Films " -- "Works Cited
Abstract:
"Chapter 10 Unnatural Child Birth: Naples, the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit, and the Blank Space of Possibility in Francesca Comenciniâs Lo Spazio Bianco " -- "Works Cited" -- "Chapter 11 Liquid Maternity in Italian Migration Cinema " -- "Works Cited" -- "Part IV Transmedia Motherhood" -- "Chapter 12 Voicing Italian Childfree Women on New Media: The Lunà digas Project " -- "Childfree Women" -- "Lunà digas: The Webdoc Project" -- "Lunà digas: Naming the Private" -- "A âPotentialâ Space/Place" -- "Transforming the Italian Context" -- "Works Cited" -- "Chapter 13 Motherhood 2.0: Una Mamma Imperfetta and the Representation of âImperfect Motherhoodâ in New Media " -- "Media Aesthetics, Motherhood, and the Subjectâs Position" -- "Perfect Motherhood" -- "Post-feminism, Media, and Motherhood" -- "Marta, the âBad Motherâ" -- "Works Cited" -- "Appendix" -- "Motherhood on Screen: A Film Catalog from 1945 to the Present
Note:
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. Description based on print version record
