Portrait of the artist and his mother in twentieth-century Italian culture /
The power exercised by the mother on the son in Mediterranean cultures has been amply studied. Italy is a special case in the Modern Era and the phenomenon of Mammismo italiano is indeed well known. Scholars have traced this obsession with the mother figure to the Catholic cult of the Virgin Mary, b...
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Madison, New Jersey :
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Maternity and Sexuality
- 2. Pasolini's Poetry
- 3. Carlo Levi and the Great Mother
- 4. Dino Buzzati
- 5. Fellini, or Cinema as Woman
- 6. Filming the Vitelloni.