Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and MelodramaFrom novels of the nineteenth century to films of the 1990s, American culture, abounds with images of white, middle-class mothers. In Motherhood and Representation, E. Ann Kaplan considers how the mother appears in three related spheres: the historical, in which she charts changing representations of the mother from 1830 to the postmodernist present; the psychoanalytic, which discusses theories of the mother from Freud to Lacan and the French Feminists; and the mother as she is figured in cultural representations: in literary and film texts such as East Lynne, Marnie and the The Handmaid's Tale, as well as in journalism and popular manuals on motherhood. Kaplan's analysis identifies two dominant paradigms of the mother as `Angel' and `Witch', and charts the contesting and often contradictory discourses of the mother in present-day America. |
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... Baby Boom (1988) 19a Foetus drawings from New York Times, 30 January 1990 19b Foetus drawings from New York Times, 31 May 1990 20a Amy Heckerling's Look Who's Talking (1990) 20b Amy Heckerling's Look Who's Talking (1990) PREFACE I have ...
... baby, and this feeds the sense that one's baby must have the latest, most stimulating toys. Advertising and media child “hype” have reached a new level, as images of babies managing computers and other electrical devices abound. Middle ...
... baby sitters, increasing child kidnapping, or the fear that one's child will be killed by a stray bullet. While such happenings have long been a reality for many groups in North America, their increasing frequency across class and race ...
... baby to the nurse (see Figure 1). The scene concludes with the son being handed to the father. In Stella Dallas (made ten years later), there is a breakfast scene in which the tired mother's labour goes as unrecognized as her actual ...
... she thinks she wants really reflects her subjective desire, or whether she wants it because it serves patriarchy (that she has been constructed to want to please)? Since patriarchy wants women. doctor and nurse with the baby.
Contents
WOMENS WRITING MELODRAMA AND FILM | |
THE SACRIFICE PARADIGM Ellen Woods | |
THE PHALLIC MOTHER PARADIGM | |
THE RESISTING MATERNAL WOMANS FILM 193060 Arzners | |
Consumerism science | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Names index | |
Other editions - View all
Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama E. Ann Kaplan Limited preview - 2013 |
Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama E. Ann Kaplan No preview available - 1992 |