This thesis explores the tensions between the cultural construction of motherhood as a
discourse and the complex subjectivities of individuals who mother, through analysing …

While some of the films in the current boom of baby boom movies suggest that woman's
primary role is to be a mother, others show men taking over this role. The enormously …

The above quotation, from a 1988 TV movie, opens Hilary Radner's discussion of
contemporary Hollywood film and its continuing reliance on the 'Cinderella'or marriage plot …

The French critic Roger Odin, who pioneered the studying of home movies 1 and retrieved
them from the 'garbage dump of film and cultural studies', to borrow Patricia Zimmerman's …

This essay explores Jean Benoît-Lévy and Marie Epstein's box-office success La Maternelle
and their lesser-known Maternité in the context of interwar debates over women's roles in …

It's widely assumed that Britain in the 1950s experienced a return to traditional gender roles.
Popular cinema has typically been seen to represent this era through the dominant image of …

Women's film-making in France is a source of both delight and despair. On the one hand, the
numbers are impressive--during the period in question, over 250 feature-length films were …

FINAL THESIS Page 1 1 Louise FitzGerald Negotiating Lone Motherhood: Gender, Politics and
Family Values in Contemporary Popular Cinema. Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor …

Insofar as film scholarship followed literary studies, in the 1980s and 1990s, in taking up
Benedict Anderson's work on the construction of national identity through imagined …

FRENCHCINEMANEVER produced a category of films that can be called'women's film'as
Hollywood did in the 1930s and 1940s. Though that category (or sub-genre) itself is ill …