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 EMEast Lynne, Marnie and the EMT. |
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... scenes in two very different King Vidor movies demonstrate the point : in The Crowd , the scene of the hero's birth manages to refuse the birthing mother any reverse shot ; the anxious father looks at the bed where his son is being born ...
... scenes in two very different King Vidor movies demonstrate the point : in The Crowd , the scene of the hero's birth manages to refuse the birthing mother any reverse shot ; the anxious father looks at the bed where his son is being born ...
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... scene when he arrives at the Hare's from London replete with female - looking packages for the women . More so than the figure in the novel , Carlyle here is soft , playful , accessible and emotional . He does not represent the Law Man ...
... scene when he arrives at the Hare's from London replete with female - looking packages for the women . More so than the figure in the novel , Carlyle here is soft , playful , accessible and emotional . He does not represent the Law Man ...
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... scene at the movies . The parallelism is obvious in the composition and framing of the final scene where Stella gazes up at her daughter's wedding doubly framed by the wrought iron stakes of the fence behind which Stella is made to ...
... scene at the movies . The parallelism is obvious in the composition and framing of the final scene where Stella gazes up at her daughter's wedding doubly framed by the wrought iron stakes of the fence behind which Stella is made to ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
THE PSYCHOANALYTIC SPHERE | 27 |
Motherhood and fictional representation | 57 |
Copyright | |
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