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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... Film Institute for permission to reproduce the film stills featured in the book. Finally, I want to thank my (then) secretary at the Humanities Institute, Diane Godden, who retyped my MS for a new computer program in 1988; Joe Greco, a ...
... Film Institute for permission to reproduce the film stills featured in the book. Finally, I want to thank my (then) secretary at the Humanities Institute, Diane Godden, who retyped my MS for a new computer program in 1988; Joe Greco, a ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... film critics on the other hand have focused on melodrama precisely in an attempt to define and differentiate those films ... of film – from 1900 to 1920, say – are particularly bound to nineteenth-century literary and dramatic models, as ...
... film critics on the other hand have focused on melodrama precisely in an attempt to define and differentiate those films ... of film – from 1900 to 1920, say – are particularly bound to nineteenth-century literary and dramatic models, as ...
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... the Film Spectator. A final set of concepts requiring brief mention have to do with the vexed question of the film spectator. Because I am limiting myself to a study of representations, I am unable to discuss the historical reader ...
... the Film Spectator. A final set of concepts requiring brief mention have to do with the vexed question of the film spectator. Because I am limiting myself to a study of representations, I am unable to discuss the historical reader ...
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... the films that lift the narrative on to the level of the oppressive social imaginary. The films will be distinguished according to their relative degrees of complicity with, and resistance to, dominant mother paradigms. Chapter 7 ...
... the films that lift the narrative on to the level of the oppressive social imaginary. The films will be distinguished according to their relative degrees of complicity with, and resistance to, dominant mother paradigms. Chapter 7 ...
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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