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Description

As celebrities sporting "baby bumps," politicians, Olympic athletes, and talk show guests, mothers are ubiquitous throughout U.S. media and popular culture. Like lightning rods, these high-profile mothers attract accolades and judgments associated with ideals of female sexuality, gender roles, and constructions of contemporary families. Motherhood Misconceived explores this widespread cultural fascination with motherhood through analyses of mothers in contemporary U.S. film, including both mainstream and independent cinematic representations. The contributors draw on a variety of critical approaches to consider the spectacle of pregnancy; mother-daughter relationships; mothers as predators, narcissists, and absent victims; and the ways in which cultural anxieties are displaced and projected onto marginalized mothers in films such as Fargo; Transamerica; Gas, Food, Lodging; Ordinary People; and Scream. Ideal for women's studies or film studies classes, Motherhood Misconceived will help students contextualize current debates about motherhood as they play out in popular and independent film.
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Acknowledgments

Introduction
Heather Addison, Mary Kate Goodwin-Kelly, and Elaine Roth

I. The Celluloid Stork: Picturing Pregnancy

1. Pregnant Body and/as Smoking Gun: Reviewing the Evidence of Fargo
Mary Kate Goodwin-Kelly

2. Mother’s Day: Taking the Mother Out of Motherhood in The Thrill of It All
Tamar Jeffers McDonald

3. Not Exactly According to the Rules: Pregnancy and Motherhood in Sugar & Spice
Madonne M. Miner

II. Constructions of Motherhood: Mothers, Daughters, and Sex

4. Modernizing Mother: The Maternal Figure in Early Hollywood
Heather Addison

5. “Whose Baby Are You?”: Mother/Daughter Discourse in the Star Images of Mary Pickford and Joan Crawford
Gaylyn Studlar

6. “You Just Hate Men!”: Maternal Sexuality and the Nuclear Family in Gas, Food, Lodging
Elaine Roth

III. Horriffic Mothers and the Mothers of Horror

7. Hollywood’s “Moms” and Postwar America
Mike Chopra-Gant

8. Alfred Hitchcock and the Phobic Maternal Body
Mun-Hou Lo

9. Paranoia, Cold Surveillance, and the Maternal Gaze: Reconsidering the “Absent Mother” in Ordinary People
Mark Harper

10. Scream, Popular Culture, and Feminism’s Third Wave: “I’m Not My Mother”
Kathleen Rowe Karlyn

IV. Maternal Anxieties of Class, Race, and Gender

11. Great Ladies and Guttersnipes: Class and the Representation of Southern Mothers in Hollywood Films
Aimee Berger

12. “Don’t Say Mammy”: Camille Billops’s Meditations on Black Motherhood
Janet K. Cutler

13. From Dad to Mom: Transgendered Motherhood in Transamerica
Mary M. Dalton

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Index

Sujets

• Película fotográfica
• Visual culture
• History of film
• Film

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 06 octobre 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438428154
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 18 Mo

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MOTHERHOOD MISCONCEIVED

Representîng the Maternal în U.S. Fîlms

Edited by HEATHER ADDISON MARY KATE GOODWIN-KELLY ELAINE ROTH

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Môéôô îŝçôçéîé : ééŝéîg é àéà î U.S. Iŝ / éîé  Héàé  Aîŝô, Mà Kàé Gôôî-Ké, à Eàîé Rô.  . ç.  ïçûéŝ îîôgàîçà éééçéŝ à îéx.  ïSBN 978-1-4384-2811-6 (àçôé : à. àé)  ïSBN 978-1-4384-2812-3 (. : à. àé)  1. Môéôô—Uîé Sàéŝ. 2. Môéôô î ôîô îçûéŝ. 3. Séx ôé î ôîô îçûéŝ. ï. Aîŝô, Héàé. ïï. Gôôî-Ké, Mà Kàé, 1971– ïïï. Rô, Eàîé, 1968–

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To our sîgnîicant others and to our chîldren,

but most of all—to our mothers

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ï. Té Céûôî Sô: Pîçûîg Pégàç

Pégà Bô à/àŝ Sôîg Gû: Réîéîg é Eîéçé ôFargo Mary Kate Goodwîn-Kelly

Môé’ŝ Dà: Tàîg é Môé Oû ô Môéôô î The Thrîll of It All Tamar Jeffers McDonald

Nô Exàç Aççôîg ô é Rûéŝ: Pégàç à Môéôô îSugar & Spîce Madonne M. Mîner

ïï. Côŝûçîôŝ ô Môéôô: Môéŝ, Dàûgéŝ, à Séx

 4. Môéîzîg Môé: Té Màéà Fîgûé î Eà Hôôô Heather Addîson

 5. “Wôŝé Bà Aé Yôû?”: Môé/Dàûgé Dîŝçôûŝé î é  Sà ïàgéŝ ô Mà Pîçô à Jôà Càô Gaylyn Studlar

 6. “Yôû Jûŝ Hàé Mé!”: Màéà Séxûàî à é  Nûçéà Fàî îGas, Food, Lodgîng Elaîne Roth

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 7. Hôôô’ŝ “Môŝ” à Pôŝà Aéîçà Mîke Chopra-Gant

 8. Aé Hîççôç à é Pôîç Màéà Bô Mun-Hou Lo

 9. Pààôîà, Cô Sûéîàçé, à é Màéà Gàzé:  Réçôŝîéîg é “Aŝé Môé” îOrdînary People Mark Harper

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ïV. Màéà Axîéîéŝ ô Càŝŝ, Ràçé, à Géé

Géà àîéŝ à Gûéŝîéŝ: Càŝŝ à é Rééŝéàîô ô Sôûé Môéŝ î Hôôô Fîŝ Aîmee Berger

“Dô’ Sà Mà”: Càîé Bîôŝ’ŝ Méîàîôŝ ô Bàç Môéôô Janet K. Cutler

Fô Dà ô Mô: Tàŝgééé Môéôô îTransamerîca Mary M. Dalton

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