Italian Motherhood on Screen (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Italian and Italian American Studies
Release date:	October 2017
First published:	2017
Editors:	Giovanna Faleschini Lerner • Maria Elena D'amelio
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	293
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-56674-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Promotions
LSN:	3-319-56674-1
Barcode:	9783319566740

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