Mom in the movies
Subtitle: the iconic screen mothers you love (and a few you love to hate)
By: by Richard Corliss ; foreword by Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher
Contributors: Turner Classic Movies (Firm)
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781476738260
Subjects: Mothers in motion pictures
Description: Featuring more than one hundred photographs and film stills, a guide to mothers in film, presented by a film historian and critic and Turner Classic Movies, shows the many ways that Hollywood has celebrated, vilified, and poked good fun at mothers.
Notes: "TCM, Turner Classic Movies."
Table of contents: title: A gallery of Golden Age moms; title: Motherhood in the movies / by Sam Robards; title: Silent moms; title: The mother martyrs of pre-Code; title: The Great American mom; title: On Jane Darwell in The Grapes of Wrath / by Eva Marie Saint; title: Serial moms; title: Perennial moms; title: On movie motherhood / by Jane Powell; title: Aunts; title: Mammies and nannies; title: A mom by any other name; title: When moms collide with their kids; title: Bad seeds; title: Malevolent moms; title: Crime and horror moms; title: On being a mother and actress / by Tippi Hedren; title: Sci-fi moms; title: Showbiz moms; title: The greatest mama of them all / by Illeana Douglas; title: A gallery of modern moms; title: Semper mom!