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, Nepa...
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Toronto :
Demeter Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Intersectional interventions in global cinema: introducing the maternal / Asma Sayed
- 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 2: popular (mis)conceptions of motherhood
- Fortune favours the brave: Brenda Chapman's efforts to tell a mother-daughter story of conflict and love in a fairy tale film / Linda Pershing, Amanda Lenox, and Melissa Demi Martinez
- 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 "new" Indian mothers in popular Bollywood films / Asma Ayob
- The aesthetics of (dis)empowered motherhood in Iranian cinema (1965-1978) / Khatereh Sheibani.