Motherhood Misconceived

by Addison, Heather; Goodwin-kelly, Mary Kate; Roth, Elaine

• ISBN13: 9781438428123
• ISBN10: 143842812X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-08
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

First collection of essays on cinematic motherhood.

Author Biography

Heather Addison is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Western Michigan University and author of Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture. Mary Kate Goodwin-Kelly is an independent scholar living in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Elaine Roth is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Indiana University South Bend.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Celluloid Stork: Picturing Pregnancy
Pregnant Body and/as Smoking Gun: Reviewing the Evidence of Fargo	p. 15
Mother's Day: Taking the Mother Out of Motherhood in The Thrill of It All	p. 29
Not Exactly According to the Rules: Pregnancy and Motherhood in Sugar & Spice	p. 43
Constructions of Motherhood: Mothers, Daughters, and Sex
Modernizing Mother: The Maternal Figure in Early Hollywood	p. 63
"Whose Baby Are You?": Mother/Daughter Discourse in the Star Images of Mary Pickford and Joan Crawford	p. 81
"You Just Hate Men!": Maternal Sexuality and the Nuclear Family in Gas, Food, Lodging	p. 111
Horrific Mothers and the Mothers of Horror
Hollywood's "Moms" and Postwar America	p. 125
Alfred Hitchcock and the Phobic Maternal Body	p. 139
Paranoia, Cold Surveillance, and the Maternal Gaze: Reconsidering the "Absent Mother" in Ordinary People	p. 157
Scream, Popular Culture, and Feminism's Third Wave: "I'm Not My Mother"	p. l77
Maternal Anxieties of Class, Race, and Gender
Great Ladies and Guttersnipes: Class and the Representation of Southern Mothers in Hollywood Films	p. 199
"Don't Say Mammy": Camille Billops's Meditations on Black Motherhood	p. 213
From Dad to Mom: Transgendered Motherhood in Transamerica	p. 235
List of Contributors	p. 251
Index	p. 253
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