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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... the desire to write the book: I wanted to find out how mothers are constructed in patriarchy on the assumption that ... from, in Lacan's terms, the unconscious Imaginary and Symbolic Mothers over which I had no control and yet which ...
... the desire to write the book: I wanted to find out how mothers are constructed in patriarchy on the assumption that ... from, in Lacan's terms, the unconscious Imaginary and Symbolic Mothers over which I had no control and yet which ...
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The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama E. Ann Kaplan. Figure 1 King Vidor's The Crowd (1928) John Smith's father waits nervously to learn he has a boy. The mother who has given birth is excluded from the scene. Mirror image shows It ...
The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama E. Ann Kaplan. Figure 1 King Vidor's The Crowd (1928) John Smith's father waits nervously to learn he has a boy. The mother who has given birth is excluded from the scene. Mirror image shows It ...
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The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama E. Ann Kaplan. attempts to locate clearly the terrain on which it works, thereby situating social science research as different from, but orthogonal with, what I am doing; and finally its ...
The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama E. Ann Kaplan. attempts to locate clearly the terrain on which it works, thereby situating social science research as different from, but orthogonal with, what I am doing; and finally its ...
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... the “Master” Motherhood Discourse as it worked to position white, middle-class women as subjects in very specific ways. The concept of a “Master Discourse” derives ultimately from Nietzsche, who, in his Genealogy of Morale, comments on the ...
... the “Master” Motherhood Discourse as it worked to position white, middle-class women as subjects in very specific ways. The concept of a “Master Discourse” derives ultimately from Nietzsche, who, in his Genealogy of Morale, comments on the ...
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The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama E. Ann Kaplan. producing certain powerful mother representations, particularly in the post-Freud period. Understanding the process of subject-formation from a psychoanalytic point of view is ...
The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama E. Ann Kaplan. producing certain powerful mother representations, particularly in the post-Freud period. Understanding the process of subject-formation from a psychoanalytic point of view is ...
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 |
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