| Description |
xii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Motherhood and film: a critical genealogy -- 2. The trick film: The lady vanishes: women, magic, and the movies -- 3. Silent melodrama: Way down East: melodrama, metaphor, and the maternal body -- 4. The horror film: Birth traumas: parturition and horror in Rosemary's baby -- 5. The crime film: Mama's boy: filial hysteria in White heat -- 6. Film comedy: "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child": comedy and matricide -- 7. The thriller: The hand that shocks the cradle: the maternal thriller -- 8. The postmodern film: Postmodernity and postmaternity: high heels and Imitation of life -- 9. The nonfiction film: "The reproduction of mothering": documenting the mother-daughter bond -- 10. Epilogue: Maternity and the artist: "a remarkable zoological species". |
| Subject |
Mothers in motion pictures.
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Women in motion pictures.
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Film genres.
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| ISBN |
0691037744 paperback alkaline paper |
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0691037752 cloth alkaline paper |
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