E Ann Kaplan

Motherhood and Representation

The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama

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Produktbeschreibung

From nineteenth century novels to films in the 1990s, American culture abounds with the images of white, middle-class mothers. Kaplan looks at how they appear in the psychoanalytic, historical and cultural spheres.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9781138169760
• ISBN-10: 1138169765
• Artikelnr.: 44972111

Autorenporträt

E. Ann Kaplan is Professor of English and Comparative Studies and Director of the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook, the State University of New York. She is the author of Women and Film and Rocking Around the Clock, and editor of Psychoanalysis and Cinema.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 History and Theory Discourses
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Historical Sphere
Chapter 3 The Psychoanalytic Sphere and Motherhood Discourse
Part 2 Motherhood and Fictional Representation
Chapter 4 Women'S Writing, Melodrama and Film
Chapter 5 The Maternal Melodrama: The Sacrifice Paradigm
Chapter 6 The Maternal Melodrama: The "Phallic" Mother Paradigm
Chapter 7 The "Resisting" Text Within the Patriarchal "Feminine"
Chapter 8 The "Resisting" Maternal Woman'S Film 1930-60
Chapter 9 Sex, Work and Mother/Fatherhood