Fischer Cinematernity

Film, Motherhood, Genre
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5159-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 339, 262 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Fischer, Lucy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: Motherhood and Film: A Critical Genealogy 3

2 The Trick Film: The Lady Vanishes: Women, Magic, and the Movies 37

3 Silent Melodrama: Way Down East: Melodrama, Metaphor, and the Maternal Body 56

4 The Horror Film: Birth Traumas: Parturition and Horror in Rosemary's Baby 73

5 The Crime Film: Mama's Boy: Filial Hysteria in White Heat 92

6 Film Comedy: "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child": Comedy and Matricide 111

7 The Thriller: The Hand That Shocks the Cradle: The Maternal Thriller 131

8 The Postmodern Film: Postmodernity and Postmaternity: High Heels and Imitation of Life 162

9 The Nonfiction Film: "The Reproduction of Mothering": Documenting the Mother-Daughter Bond 179

10 Epilogue: Maternity and the Artist: "A Remarkable Zoological Species" 214

Index 231