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, Nepal, 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.-- 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. Edited By Asma Sayed. Includes Bibliographical References. This book brings welcome critical scrutiny to a range of films and concerns not widely circulated and, in so doing, opens a conversation calling for responses and examples from other quarters. A valuable addition for all concerned with film, gender and women s studies. --Gail Vanstone, author of D is for Daring: A Feminist Cultural History of Canada s National Film Board s Studio D Screening Motherhood takes a global view, covering explorations of mothers in multiple cinematic traditions. This collection extends the conversations taking place in world cinema, feminist film studies, and mothering scholarship by shining a spotlight on maternal representation in film globally. The chapters take film as a cultural document, exposing how mothers on the big and small screen re-inscribe intensive mother norms but also disrupt the discourse. Scholars and film lovers will be eager to engage with the text and the possibilities Screening Motherhood opens up for women, especially mothers, to participate in telling their own stories. --Joanne Minaker, Associate Professor MacEwan University 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