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Motherhood in Film - Coggle Diagram
Motherhood in Film
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Horror
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Rosi Braidotti 'Mothers, Monsters and Machines'
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Sexual difference and otherness, Freudean ideas about the 'lack'
Melodrama
Maternity in melodrama shown as a cultural requirement, "a conviction that children are the reason for getting married. . . or the only thing holding marriage together . . . , or women's ultimate raison d'etre, her only worth-confirming 'career"' Molly Haskell, From Reverence to Rape, p. 169
Themes of maternal guilt, suffering, sacrifice
Film Stella Dallas: 'The film punishes Stella (Barbara Stanwyck) for her refusal to be consumed by parenting and for her desire to maintain her sexual allure' (Lucy Fischer, Cinematernity)
Interesting that Linda Williams also writes about this film that the viewer of Stella Dallas must "alternate between a number of conflicting points of view"—those that criticize Stella and those that renounce that very criticism" (155) - link to The Lost Daughter
Sci-fi
Metaphors about production, technology
Recent examples of motherhood in film/TV (any genre)
Mother! (2017)
Horror
Maid (TV) (2021)
Very much on the theme of maternal sacrifice
Parallel Mothers (2021)
Spencer (2021)
Tully (2018)
Bird Box (2018)
Roma (2018)
Workin' Moms (present)
Motherland
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