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UNINA9910455601203321 |
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Plant Rebecca Jo <1968-> |
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Mom [[electronic resource] ] : the transformation of motherhood in modern America / / Rebecca Jo Plant |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2010 |
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1-282-53771-7 |
9786612537714 |
0-226-67023-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Motherhood - United States |
Motherhood in popular culture - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Debunking the All-American Mom: Philip Wylie's Momism Critique -- 2. Mothers of the Nation: Patriotic Maternalism and Its Critics -- 3. Pathologizing Mother Love: Mental Health and Maternal Affectivity -- 4. Banishing the Suffering Mother: The Quest for Painless Childbirth -- 5. Mother-Blaming and The Feminine Mystique : Betty Friedan and Her Readers -- Notes -- Index |
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In the early twentieth century, Americans often waxed lyrical about "Mother Love," signaling a conception of motherhood as an all-encompassing identity, rooted in self-sacrifice and infused with social and political meaning. By the 1940's, the idealization of motherhood had waned, and the nation's mothers found themselves blamed for a host of societal and psychological ills. In Mom, Rebecca Jo Plant traces this important shift by exploring the evolution of maternalist politics, changing perceptions of the mother-child bond, and the rise of new approaches to childbirth |
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UNINA9910455307303321 |
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Kozloff Sarah |
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Invisible storytellers [[electronic resource] ] : voice-over narration in American fiction film / / Sarah Kozloff |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1988 |
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1-282-35560-0 |
9786612355608 |
0-520-90966-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (178 p.) |
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Voice-overs |
Motion picture plays, American - History and criticism |
Motion pictures - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Includes filmography (p. 141-153). |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-160) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Prejudices against Voice-Over Narration -- 2. Ancestors, Influences, and Development -- 3. First-Person Narrators -- 4. Third-Person Narrators -- 5. Irony in Voice-Over Films -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Filmography -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index |
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"Let me tell you a story," each film seems to offer silently as its opening frames hit the screen. But sometimes the film finds a voice-an off-screen narrator-for all or part of the story. From Wuthering Heights and Double Indemnity to Annie Hall and Platoon, voice-over narration has been an integral part of American movies.Through examples from films such as How Green Was My Valley, All About Eve, The Naked City, and Barry Lyndon, Sarah Kozloff examines and analyzes voice-over narration. She refutes the assumptions that words should only play a minimal role in film, that "showing" is superior to "telling," or that the technique is inescapably authoritarian (the "voice of god"). She questions the common conception that voice-over is a literary technique by tracing its origins in the silent era and by highlighting the |
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influence of radio, documentaries, and television. She explores how first-person or third-person narration really affects a film, in terms of genre conventions, viewer identification, time and nostalgia, subjectivity, and reliability. In conclusion she argues that voice-over increases film's potential for intimacy and sophisticated irony. |
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