Screening Motherhood in Contemporary World Cinema

✍ Scribed by Asma Sayed

• Publisher: Demeter Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 439
• Edition: Illustrated
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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, 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Screening Motherhood in Contemporary World Cinema
Copyright
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Intersectional Interventions in Global Cinema
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 Muttirepublikin Wolfgang Becker’s Good Bye Lenin!
8. “Mother-Subjects” in Canadian Film
9. Fortune Favours the Brave
10. Demeter-Kali Rising
11.Alien versus Terminator
12.Mamá de las Mariposas
13. Motherhood and Identity in Contemporary Argentine Cinema
14. Maligned Mothers
15. Motherhood and Masculinity in Atiq Rahimi’s
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