Motherhood Misconceived: Representing the Maternal in U.S. Films

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CONTENTS......Page 9
ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 11
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 13
INTRODUCTION......Page 15
I. THE CELLULOID STORK: Picturing Pregnancy......Page 27
1. PREGNANT BODY AND/AS SMOKING GUN: Reviewing the Evidence of Fargo......Page 29
2. MOTHER’S DAY: Taking the Mother Out of Motherhood in The Thrill of It All......Page 43
3. NOT EXACTLY ACCORDING TO THE RULES: Pregnancy and Motherhood in Sugar & Spice......Page 57
II. CONSTRUCTIONS OF MOTHERHOOD: Mothers, Daughters, and Sex......Page 75
4. MODERNIZING MOTHER: The Maternal Figure in Early Hollywood......Page 77
5. “WHOSE BABY ARE YOU?”Mother/Daughter Discourse in the Star Images of Mary Pickford and Joan Crawford......Page 95
6. “YOU JUST HATE MEN!”Maternal Sexuality and the Nuclear Family in Gas, Food, Lodging......Page 125
III. HORRIFIC MOTHERS AND THE MOTHERS OF HORROR......Page 137
7. HOLLYWOOD’S “MOMS”AND POSTWAR AMERICA......Page 139
8. ALFRED HITCHCOCK AND THE PHOBIC MATERNAL BODY......Page 153
9. PARANOIA, COLD SURVEILLANCE,AND THE MATERNAL GAZE:Reconsidering the “Absent Mother”in Ordinary People......Page 171
10. SCREAM, POPULAR CULTURE,AND FEMINISM’S THIRD WAVE: “I’m Not My Mother”......Page 191
IV. MATERNAL ANXIETIES OF CLASS,RACE, AND GENDER......Page 211
11. GREAT LADIES AND GUTTERSNIPES: Class and the Representation of Southern Mothers in Hollywood Films......Page 213
12. “DON’T SAY MAMMY": Camille Billops’s Meditations on Black Motherhood......Page 227
13. FROM DAD TO MOM: Transgendered Motherhood in Transamerica......Page 249
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 265
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