Weird lullabies
Subtitle: mothers and daughters in contemporary film
By: Betty Jay.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9783039118397
Subjects: Mothers and daughters in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "All imperfect things": motherhood and the aesthetics of ambivalence in The piano; title: Black mother/white daughter : surrogacy and resistance in Friends; title: "Let's moider mother" : Heavenly creatures and the politics of delusion; title: "Something better left alone" : interrogating the mother in Dolores Claiborne; title: "To Nantucket by the light of the moon" : recovering Woolf in Losing Chase; title: "'Tis a book of the dead" : the maternal spectre in The others; title: "Not another mama story!" : maternal sacrifice in Step mom; title: True thing and Pieces of april.