"Mother-subjects" in Canadian film: off-focus or off-screen? / Terri Hawkes -- Part 1: mothers resisting from the margins -- Obāchan's Garden: maternal genealogies as resistence in Canadian experimental documentary / Sheena Wilson -- "Every child is a mother's blessing": mothers and children in Ana Kokkinos's Blessed / Veronica Thompson -- Discourses of the maternal in the cinema of Eastern Europe / Irene Sywenky -- (Re)producing globalization: the labouring maternal body in Maria Full of Grace / Jennifer Wingard -- Don't slap yo' gran'momma: Tyler Perry and Madea / Kwakiutl L. Dreher -- Disrupting and containing motherhood: challenging subversive representations in Waitress and Frozen River / Rachel D. Davidson -- Mother as failed communist Muttirepublik in Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye Lenin! / Susan Wansink -- "Mother-subjects" in Canadian film: off-focus or off-screen? / Terri Hawkes -- Part 4: eastern mothers -- Indian cine-maa: a body of partiarchal discourse / Ramita Jhamtani -- Demeter-Kali rising: the fierce mother in Harry Potter / S. Hilary Anne Ivory -- Alien versus Terminator: representations of motherhood in science fiction / Rachael Johnstone -- Part 3: screening Latin mamas -- Mamá de las mariposas: cinematic portrayals of Mercedes Mirabal and reclaiming maternal history / Tegan Zimmerman -- Motherhood and identity in contemporary Argentine cinema / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns -- Maligned mothers: from Coatlicue to La Malinche and back / Cristina Santos -- Part 4: eastern mothers -- Motherhood and masculinity in Atiq Rahimi's Syngue Sabour / Elli Dehnavi -- Indian cine-maa: a body of partiarchal discourse / Ramita Jhamtani -- The aesthetics of (dis)empowered motherhood in Iranian cinema (1965-1978) / Khatereh Sheibani. The aesthetics of (dis)empowered motherhood in Iranian cinema (1965-1978) / Khatereh Sheibani.
Summary:
"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, Nepal, Eastern Europe, Canada, and the United States, the various chapters contextualize the socio-cultural realities of motherhood as they are represented on screen, and explore the maternal figure as she has been glamorized and celebrated, while simultaneously subjected to public scrutiny. Collectively, this scholarly investigation provides insights into where women's struggles converge, while also highlighting the dramatically different realities of women around the globe."-- Provided by publisher.
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