Mediated maternity : contemporary American portrayals of bad mothers in literature and popular culture /

Mediated Maternity: Contemporary American Portrayals of Bad Mothers in Literature and Popular Culture, by Linda Seidel, explores the cultural construction of the bad mother in books, movies, and TV shows, arguing that these portrayals typically have the effect of cementing dominant assumptions about...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Seidel, Linda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]
Temas:
2000-2099
American literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Mothers in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Mothers in motion pictures.
Mothers on television.
Littérature américaine > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Mères dans la littérature.
Maternité dans la littérature.
Mères au cinéma.
Mères à la télévision.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature.
Literature.
Motherhood.
Mothers.
Motion pictures.
Television.
Literatur
Amerikanisches Englisch
Mutter
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Mediated motherhood
  • Nancy Grace and the motherhood critics
  • Neonaticide in Nancy Grace and Jodi Picoult
  • Gone baby gone: reproducing the bad mother
  • Stereotyping the black welfare mother in Precious
  • Creating the reality of postpartum depression in Shields' Down Came the Rain and Morton's Breakable You
  • Glenn Close and the monstrous maternal: mothers and daughters in damages
  • Epilogue: Motherhood in context.

Ejemplares similares