Cinematernity

Author : Lucy Fischer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781400851591

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Cinematernity by Lucy Fischer Pdf

Noting that motherhood is a common metaphor for film production, Lucy Fischer undertakes the first investigation of how the topic of motherhood presents itself throughout a wide range of film genres. Until now discussions of maternity have focused mainly on melodramas, which, along with musicals and screwball comedies, have traditionally been viewed as "women's" cinema. Fischer defies gender-based classifications to show how motherhood has played a fundamental role in the overall cinematic experience. She argues that motherhood is often treated as a site of crisis--for example, the mother being blamed for the ills afflicting her offspring--then shows the tendency of certain genres to specialize in representing a particular social or psychological dimension in the thematics of maternity. Drawing on social history and various cultural theories, Fischer first looks at Rosemary's Baby to show the prevalence of childbirth themes in horror films. In crime films (White Heat), she sees the linkage of male deviance and mothering. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and The Guardian, both occult thrillers, uncover cultural anxieties about working mothers. Her discussion covers burlesques of male mothering, feminist documentaries on the mother-daughter relationship, trick films dealing with procreative metaphors, and postmodern films like High Heels, where fluid sexuality is the theme. These films tend to treat motherhood as a locus of irredeemable conflict, whereas History and Memory and High Tide propose a more sanguine, dynamic, and enabling view. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9781438113555

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Walt Whitman, Updated Edition by Harold Bloom Pdf

Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of Walt Whitman.

Author : Ruby C. Tapia
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816653102

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American Pietàs by Ruby C. Tapia Pdf

What visual tropes of race, death, and motherhood tell us about citizenship.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UOM:39015061575240

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Quarterly of Film, Radio and Television by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sophia Vivienne Kottmayer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781848880726

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Live Evil: Of Magic and Men by Sophia Vivienne Kottmayer Pdf

Author : Giovanna Faleschini Lerner,Maria Elena D’Amelio
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319566757

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Italian Motherhood on Screen by Giovanna Faleschini Lerner,Maria Elena D’Amelio Pdf

This book is the first scholarly analysis that considers the specificity of situated experiences of the maternal from a variety of theoretical perspectives. From “Fertility Day” to “Family Day,” the concept of motherhood has been at the center of the public debate in contemporary Italy, partly in response to the perceived crisis of the family, the economic crisis, and the crisis of national identity, provoked by the forces of globalization and migration, secularization, and the instability of labor markets. Through essays by an international cohort of established and emerging scholars, this volume aims to read these shifts in cinematic terms. How does Italian cinema represent, negotiate, and elaborate changing definitions of motherhood in narrative, formal, and stylistic terms? The essays in this volume focus on the figures of working mothers, women who opt for a child-free adulthood, single mothers, ambivalent mothers, lost mothers, or imperfect mothers, who populate contemporary screen narratives.

Author : So Mayer,Corinn Columpar
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814348543

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Mothers of Invention by So Mayer,Corinn Columpar Pdf

Examines the role that parenting, as a theme and practice, plays in film and media cultures.

Author : Claire Jenkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857737762

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Home Movies by Claire Jenkins Pdf

The American family has long been at the centre of the typical Hollywood narrative. But the depiction of the nuclear family within contemporary mainstream US cinema has not yet been closely studied. Home Movies addresses this oversight by assessing recent cinematic representations of the family in terms of cultural politics and representations of gender, sexuality, race and class. Focusing on a diverse range of popular films - from Meet the Parents to The Incredibles - Claire Jenkins analyses the father-daughter relationship within sequels and series; Meryl Streep's embodiment of the mother; the superhero family and extraordinary manifestations of the ordinary family; disaster films which depict the president as father; 'mom-coms' and Hollywood's representations of the non-traditional family. She combines film studies, gender studies and family history to demonstrate the complexities of Hollywood's family values.

Author : Kathleen Cummins
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231851299

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Herstories on Screen by Kathleen Cummins Pdf

From the late 1970s into the early 1990s, a generation of female filmmakers took aim at their home countries’ popular myths of the frontier. Deeply influenced by second-wave feminism and supported by hard-won access to governmental and institutional funding and training, their trailblazing films challenged traditionally male genres like the Western. Instead of reinforcing the myths of nationhood often portrayed in such films—invariably featuring a lone white male hero pitted against the “savage” and “uncivilized” native terrain—these filmmakers constructed counternarratives centering on women and marginalized communities. In place of rugged cowboys violently removing indigenous peoples to make the frontier safe for their virtuous wives and daughters, these filmmakers told the stories of colonial and postcolonial societies from a female and/or subaltern point of view. Herstories on Screen is a transnational study of feature narrative films from Australia, Canada, the United States, and New Zealand/Aotearoa that deconstruct settler-colonial myths. Kathleen Cummins offers in-depth readings of ten works by a diverse range of women filmmakers including Jane Campion, Julie Dash, Merata Mita, Tracey Moffatt, and Anne Wheeler. She reveals how they skillfully deploy genre tropes and popular storytelling conventions in order to critique master narratives of feminine domesticity and purity and depict women and subaltern people performing acts of agency and resistance. Cummins details the ways in which second-wave feminist theory and aesthetics informed these filmmakers’ efforts to debunk idealized Anglo-Saxon femininity and motherhood and lay bare gendered and sexual violence and colonial oppression.

Author : Marcelline Block,Angela Laflen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443804394

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Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema by Marcelline Block,Angela Laflen Pdf

Marcelline Block’s Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema breaks new ground in exploring feminist film theory. It is a wide-ranging collection (re)visiting important theoretical questions as well as offering close analyses of films produced in the United States, France, England, Belgium, and Russia. This anthology investigates exciting areas of research for critical inquiry into film and gender studies as well as feminist, queer, and postfeminist theories, and treats film texts from Marguerite Duras to 21st century horror films; from Agnès Varda’s 2007 installation at the Panthéon to the post-Soviet Russian filmmakers Aleksei Balabanov and Valerii Todorovskii; from Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof to Sofia Coppola’s postfeminist trilogy; from Chantal Akerman’s “transhistorical, transgressive and transgendered gaze” to the “quantum gaze” in Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park; from Hitchcock’s “good-looking blondes” to the career-woman-in-peril thriller, among others. According to the semiotician Marshall Blonsky of the New School University in New York, “given the breadth of the editor’s choices, this volume makes a splendid contribution to feminist and cinematic fields, as well as cultural and media studies, postmodernism, and postfeminism. It lends readers ‘new eyes’ to view canonical and other film texts.” David Sterritt, chairman of the National Society of Film Critics, states that this anthology “should be required reading for students and scholars, among other readers interested in the interaction of cinema with contemporary culture.” Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship is prefaced by Jean-Michel Rabaté’s brilliant essay, “Mulvey was the First…”

Author : Ruby C. Tapia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Beloved (Motion picture : 1998)
ISBN : UCSD:31822009314535

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Conceiving Images by Ruby C. Tapia Pdf

Author : Kristin Lené Hole,Dijana Jelača
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317212157

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Film Feminisms by Kristin Lené Hole,Dijana Jelača Pdf

Film Feminisms offers a global and updated overview of the history, present-day concerns, and future of feminist film and theory. It introduces frameworks from phenomenology, affect theory, and psychoanalysis to reception studies, new media theories, and critical historiography, as well as engaging with key issues in documentary ethics, genre theory, and star studies. This new textbook situates feminist film theory within the larger framework of transnational scholarly approaches, as well as decolonial, queer, disability studies, and critical race theories. It offers a much-needed update on pedagogical approaches to feminist film studies, providing discussions of filmmakers and films that have been overlooked in the field, or that are overdue for further analysis. Each chapter is supported by a variety of pedagogical features including activities, key terms, and case studies. Many of the activities draw on contemporary digital media, such as social media and streaming platforms, to update the field to today's changing media landscape.

Author : Cynthia Lucia,Roy Grundmann,Art Simon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118475119

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American Film History by Cynthia Lucia,Roy Grundmann,Art Simon Pdf

From the American underground film to the blockbuster superhero, this authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the core issues and developments in American cinematic history during the second half of the twentieth-century through the present day. Considers essential subjects that have shaped the American film industry—from the impact of television and CGI to the rise of independent and underground film; from the impact of the civil rights, feminist and LGBT movements to that of 9/11. Features a student-friendly structure dividing coverage into the periods 1960-1975, 1976-1990, and 1991 to the present day, each of which opens with an historical overview Brings together a rich and varied selection of contributions by established film scholars, combining broad historical, social, and political contexts with detailed analysis of individual films, including Midnight Cowboy, Nashville, Cat Ballou, Chicago, Back to the Future, Killer of Sheep, Daughters of the Dust, Nothing But a Man, Ali, Easy Rider, The Conversation, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Longtime Companion, The Matrix, The War Tapes, the Batman films, and selected avant-garde and documentary films, among many others. Additional online resources, such as sample syllabi, which include suggested readings and filmographies, for both general and specialized courses, will be available online. May be used alongside American Film History: Selected Readings, Origins to 1960 to provide an authoritative study of American cinema from its earliest days through the new millennium

Author : Bonnie G. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2710 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195148909

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History by Bonnie G. Smith Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Women in World History captures the experiences of women throughout world history in a comprehensive, 4-volume work. Although there has been extensive research on women in history by region, no text or reference work has comprehensively covered the role women have played throughout world history. The past thirty years have seen an explosion of research and effort to present the experiences and contributions of women not only in the Western world but across the globe. Historians have investigated womens daily lives in virtually every region and have researched the leadership roles women have filled across time and region. They have found and demonstrated that there is virtually no historical, social, or demographic change in which women have not been involved and by which their lives have not been affected. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History benefits greatly from these efforts and experiences, and illuminates how women worldwide have influenced and been influenced by these historical, social, and demographic changes. The Encyclopedia contains over 1,250 signed articles arranged in an A-Z format for ease of use. The entries cover six main areas: biographies; geography and history; comparative culture and society, including adoption, abortion, performing arts; organizations and movements, such as the Egyptian Uprising, and the Paris Commune; womens and gender studies; and topics in world history that include slave trade, globalization, and disease. With its rich and insightful entries by leading scholars and experts, this reference work is sure to be a valued, go-to resource for scholars, college and high school students, and general readers alike.

Author : Brian Henderson,Ann Martin,Lee Amazonas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520216032

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Film Quarterly by Brian Henderson,Ann Martin,Lee Amazonas Pdf

A collection of articles that appeared in the journal "film quarterly" that appeared over the last 40 years.