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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... films of the 1990s, American culture abounds with images of white, middle-class mothers. In Motherhood and ... film texts such as East Lynne, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Christopher Strong, Imitation of Life, Three Men and a Baby, and The ...
... FILM 5. THE MATERNAL MELODRAMA: THE SACRIFICE PARADIGM Ellen Wood's East Lynne and its play and film versions 6. THE MATERNAL MELODRAMA: THE “PHALLIC” MOTHER PARADIGM Now Voyager (1942) and Marnie (1964) 7. THE “RESISTING” TEXT WITHIN ...
... film at Rutgers University in 1982 through to similar courses at Stony Brook in 1987 and 1988 – have provided invaluable insights and telling responses to materials and theories that I first tried out on them. I thank them for their ...
... Film from 1910–1940,” in C. Gledhill (ed.), (1987) Home is Where the Heart is: Studies in Melodrama and the Woman's Film, London: British Film Institute; “Discourses of the Mother in Postmodern Film and Culture,” Westerly: A Quarterly ...
... film reception rely on showing how psychoanalytic processes are activated in viewing films. The main body of the text deals with the third sphere, that of mother- representations in select North American texts from 1830 to 1990. I have ...
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 | |
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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 |