Motherhood Misconceived Representing the Maternal in U S Films 1st Edition by Heather Addison, Mary Kate Goodwin Kelly, Elaine Roth 143842812X 978-1438428123 by Heather Addison, Mary Kate Goodwin-kelly, Elaine Roth 1438428111, 9781438428116, 143842812X instant download after payment.

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ISBN 10: 143842812X 

ISBN 13: 978-1438428123

Author: Heather Addison, Mary Kate Goodwin Kelly, Elaine Roth

First collection of essays on cinematic motherhood. 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.

Table of contents:

I. THE CELLULOID STORK: Picturing Pregnancy

1. PREGNANT BODY AND/AS SMOKING GUN: Reviewing the Evidence of Fargo

2. MOTHER’S DAY: Taking the Mother Out of Motherhood in The Thrill of It All

3. NOT EXACTLY ACCORDING TO THE RULES: Pregnancy and Motherhood in Sugar & Spice

II. CONSTRUCTIONS OF MOTHERHOOD: Mothers, Daughters, and Sex

4. MODERNIZING MOTHER: The Maternal Figure in Early Hollywood

5. “WHOSE BABY ARE YOU?”Mother/Daughter Discourse in the Star Images of Mary Pickford and Joan C

6. “YOU JUST HATE MEN!”Maternal Sexuality and the Nuclear Family in Gas, Food, Lodging

III. HORRIFIC MOTHERS AND THE MOTHERS OF HORROR

7. HOLLYWOOD’S “MOMS”AND POSTWAR AMERICA

8. ALFRED HITCHCOCK AND THE PHOBIC MATERNAL BODY

9. PARANOIA, COLD SURVEILLANCE,AND THE MATERNAL GAZE:Reconsidering the “Absent Mother”in Ordinar

10. SCREAM, POPULAR CULTURE,AND FEMINISM’S THIRD WAVE: “I’m Not My Mother”

IV. MATERNAL ANXIETIES OF CLASS,RACE, AND GENDER

11. GREAT LADIES AND GUTTERSNIPES: Class and the Representation of Southern Mothers in Hollywood Fil

12. “DON’T SAY MAMMY: ”Camille Billops’s Meditations on Black Motherhood

13. FROM DAD TO MOM: Transgendered Motherhood in Transamerica

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