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Screening motherhood in contemporary world cinema /
Using a variety of critical and theoretical approaches, the contributing scholars to this collection analyze culturally specific and globally held attitudes about mothers and mothering, as represented in world cinema. Examining films from a range of countries including Afghanistan, India, Iran, East...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Bradford, ON :
Demeter Press,
2016.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Screening Motherhood in Contemporary World Cinema
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Intersectional Interventions in Global Cinema
- I. MOTHERS RESISTING FROM THE MARGINS
- 1. Obachan's Garden
- 2."Every Child Is a Mother's Blessing"
- 3. Discourses of the Maternal in the Cinema of Eastern Europe
- 4.(Re)Producing Globalization
- 5. Don't Slap Yo' Gran'Momma
- 6. Disrupting and Containing Motherhood
- 7. Mother as Failed Communist Muttirepublik in Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye Lenin!
- 8."Mother-Subjects" in Canadian Film
- II. POPULAR (MIS)CONCEPTIONS OF MOTHERHOOD
- 9. Fortune Favours the Brave
- 10. Demeter-Kali Rising
- 11. Alien versus Terminator
- III. SCREENING LATIN MAMAS
- 12. Mamá de las Mariposas
- 13. Motherhood and Identity in Contemporary Argentine Cinema
- 14. Maligned Mothers
- IV. EASTERN MOTHERS
- 15. Motherhood and Masculinity in Atiq Rahimi's Syngue Sabour
- 16. Indian Cine-maa
- 17. The "New" Indian Mothers in Popular Bollywood Films
- 18. The Aesthetics of (Dis)Empowered Motherhood in Iranian Cinema (1965-1978)
- About the Contributors