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Title Mothers of Invention : Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor / edited by So Mayer and Corinn Columpar
Published Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 338 pages) : illustrations
Series Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
Contemporary approaches to film and media series
Contents I. Working Parents -- 1. Messy Play: Privileging Anec-Data and Messy Research Practice to Understand Creative Working Lives -- 2. Managing Feelings: Raising Films' Testimonials and the Impact of Caring Responsibilities on the Emotional Well-being of Mothers Who Work in the UK Film and Television Sector -- 3. How to Do Everything: A Conversation between Filmmakers -- 4. Watching while a Mother: Parenting, Spectatorship, Criticism -- II. Aesthetics of Maternity -- 5. Visualizing with New Comprehension: Mothering and Autoethnography -- 6. "You Have Absolutely No Control over Your Mind and Body Anymore": Pregnancy, Autonomy, and Prepartum Anxiety in Alice Lowe's Prevenge -- 7. Pregnant Situations in Agnès Varda's and Anne Claire Poirier's Film Creations -- 8. Fetal Imagery and Alternative Maternities in Jane Campion's Top of the Lake -- III. Forms of Collectivity -- 9. Crow, Child, Stranger: Radical Mothering in Bashu -- 10. Confessions of an Aca-Fan-Mom: Jane the Virgin, Motherhood, and Community -- 11. Obstetric Violence and the Creative Exploration of Alternatives in Guadalupe Sánchez Sosa's La primera sonrisa -- 12. "We Insist on This Project of Life": A Conversation with Loira Limbal -- IV. Alternate Genealogies -- 13. From (An)other Mother: Maternal Genealogies and Experimental Film History -- 14. Mother-Storyteller -- 15. Becoming A(p)parent: New (and Old) Ways of Making A Deal with the Universe -- 16. On Sharing Films, Learning Care, Keeping Watch, and Finding
Summary Examines the role that parenting, as a theme and practice, plays in film and media cultures
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 11, 2022)
Subject Mass media.
Motion pictures -- History.
Parenting.
Parenting
mass media.
Mass media
Motion pictures
Parenting
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Mayer, So, 1978- editor
Columpar, Corinn, 1970- editor
Berridge, Susan, contributor
Cabrera, María, 1985- contributor
Cleghorn, Elinor, contributor
Dent, Tamsyn, contributor
Guevara-Flanagan, Kristy, contributor
Haylett Bryan, Alice, contributor
Koostachin, Jules Arita, contributor
ISBN 0814348548
9780814348543