Portrait of the Artist and His Mother in Twentieth-Century Italian Culture

Portrait of the Artist and His Mother in Twentieth-Century Italian Culture examines how the strong mother-son relationship not only affected, but actually shaped the work of Italian artists as different as Pirandello, Carlo Levi, Buzzati, Pasolini, Fellini, concluding on with a look at mammismo/vitellonismo in some Italian film comedies.

Daniela Bini

Introduction Chapter 1: Maternity and Sexuality: Pirandello's Constant Obsessions Chapter 2: Pasolini's Poetry: A Dialogue with the Mother Chapter 3: Carlo Levi and the Great Mother Chapter 4: Dino Buzzati: The Mother and the Witches Chapter 5: Fellini, or Cinema as Woman Chapter 6: Filming the Vitelloni Epilogue