Chapter 1 Introduction: Italian Motherhood on Screen

Chapter 2 In the Name of the Mother: From Fascist Melodrama to the Maternal Horrific in the Films of Dario Argento

Chapter 3 Maternal Ambivalence in Contemporary Italian Cinema

Chapter 4 ‘A Bad Mother and a Small Heap of Bones:’ Maternal Indifference in Alessandro Capone’s L’Amore Nascosto

Chapter 5 Rich Wives, Poor Mothers: Can a Matriarch Be a Mother?

Chapter 6 Mothers at a Loss: Identity and Mourning in La Sconosciuta and Milyang

Chapter 7 ‘Acquaintance with Grief’: Filmmaking as Mourning and Recognition in Nanni Moretti’s Mia Madre

Chapter 8 Francesca Comencini’s Single Moms and Italian Family Law

Chapter 10 Unnatural Child Birth: Naples, the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit, and the Blank Space of Possibility in Francesca Comencini’s Lo Spazio Bianco

Chapter 11 Liquid Maternity in Italian Migration Cinema

Chapter 12 Voicing Italian Childfree Women on New Media: The Lunàdigas Project

Chapter 13 Motherhood 2.0: Una Mamma Imperfetta and the Representation of ‘Imperfect Motherhood’ in New Media