Editors:
- This book is the first study of motherhood in Italian cinema to focus on concrete experiences of the maternal, their diversity, and their relationship with the notion of crisis
- Includes emerging and established scholars from New Zealand, the USA, Australia, and Italy
- Focuses on the relatively neglected area of gender studies in Italian Film Studies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Italian and Italian American Studies (IIAS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Motherhood and the Body Politics
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, USA
Giovanna Faleschini Lerner
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University of the Republic of San Marino, Montegiardino, San Marino
Maria Elena D’Amelio
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Italian Motherhood on Screen
Editors: Giovanna Faleschini Lerner, Maria Elena D’Amelio
Series Title: Italian and Italian American Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56675-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56674-0Published: 24 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85970-5Published: 23 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56675-7Published: 14 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2635-2931
Series E-ISSN: 2635-294X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 293
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Cinema and TV, European Culture, Film History, Gender Studies