Hollywoods Monstrous Moms

Author : Kassia Krone
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476688931
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood's Monstrous Moms written by Kassia Krone and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Carrie and Rosemary's Baby to Us, Hereditary, and Run, the image of the mentally ill mom as villain looms large in the horror genre. What do these movies communicate about mothers living with mental illness, and how do these depictions affect them? Portraying mentally ill moms as problems to be overcome, often by their own children, perpetuates harmful stereotypes with potential real-world consequences, such as the belief that these women are unfit to bear or raise children. More compassionate representations are needed to lessen the social stigma associated with the mentally ill. Fortunately, some of the contemporary horror films are attempting to achieve that task with critical success. Using case studies from a broad range of films--including the classic, campy, slasher, or prestige--and placing them within their historical context, this work extends conversations about horror and mental illness, such as post-partum depression, bulimia, Munchausen by proxy syndrome, and others. Highlighting the trope of the mentally ill mother as a pervasive image within the genre furthers examination of how these films challenge or reflect existing stereotypes and illustrates how horror can be both a site of oppression and a source for positive transformation.

Author : Kassia Krone
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476652333
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood's Monstrous Moms written by Kassia Krone and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-04-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Carrie and Rosemary's Baby to Us, Hereditary, and Run, the image of the mentally ill mom as villain looms large in the horror genre. What do these movies communicate about mothers living with mental illness, and how do these depictions affect them? Portraying mentally ill moms as problems to be overcome, often by their own children, perpetuates harmful stereotypes with potential real-world consequences, such as the belief that these women are unfit to bear or raise children. More compassionate representations are needed to lessen the social stigma associated with the mentally ill. Fortunately, some of the contemporary horror films are attempting to achieve that task with critical success. Using case studies from a broad range of films--including the classic, campy, slasher, or prestige--and placing them within their historical context, this work extends conversations about horror and mental illness, such as post-partum depression, bulimia, Munchausen by proxy syndrome, and others. Highlighting the trope of the mentally ill mother as a pervasive image within the genre furthers examination of how these films challenge or reflect existing stereotypes and illustrates how horror can be both a site of oppression and a source for positive transformation.

Author : Tony Magistrale
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312293215
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood's Stephen King written by Tony Magistrale and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-11-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Magistrale explores many of the movie versions of Stephen King's works and provides important insights into both the films and the fiction on which they are based.

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ISBN 13 : 9780756793630
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Moms written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kate Zambreno
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1584351969
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book of Mutter written by Kate Zambreno and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fragmented, lyrical essay on memory, identity, mourning, and the mother. Writing is how I attempt to repair myself, stitching back former selves, sentences. When I am brave enough I am never brave enough I unravel the tapestry of my life, my childhood. —from Book of Mutter Composed over thirteen years, Kate Zambreno's Book of Mutter is a tender and disquieting meditation on the ability of writing, photography, and memory to embrace shadows while in the throes—and dead calm—of grief. Book of Mutter is both primal and sculpted, shaped by the author's searching, indexical impulse to inventory family apocrypha in the wake of her mother's death. The text spirals out into a fractured anatomy of melancholy that includes critical reflections on the likes of Roland Barthes, Louise Bourgeois, Henry Darger, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Peter Handke, and others. Zambreno has modeled the book's formless form on Bourgeois's Cells sculptures—at once channeling the volatility of autobiography, pain, and childhood, yet hemmed by a solemn sense of entering ritualistic or sacred space. Neither memoir, essay, nor poetry, Book of Mutter is an uncategorizable text that draws upon a repertoire of genres to write into and against silence. It is a haunted text, an accumulative archive of myth and memory that seeks its own undoing, driven by crossed desires to resurrect and exorcise the past. Zambreno weaves a complex web of associations, relics, and references, elevating the prosaic scrapbook into a strange and intimate postmortem/postmodern theater.

Author : Kelly Oliver
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231161085
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down written by Kelly Oliver and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of a heavily pregnant woman, once considered ugly and indecent, is now common to Hollywood film. No longer is pregnancy a repulsive of shameful condition, but an attractive attribute, often enhancing the romantic or comedic storyline of a female protagonist. Kelly Oliver investigates this curious shift and its reflection of changing attitudes toward women's roles in reproduction and the family.

Author : Lindsay Maracotta
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 : 9780688144982
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dead Hollywood Moms Society written by Lindsay Maracotta and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1996 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animation filmmaker Lucy Freers must clear her name in the drowning death, in her swimming pool, of a neighbor who had romantic views on her husband. The case plays out against the background of a new Hollywood craze--motherhood.

Author : Nancy McArthur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780380799350
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plant that Ate Dirty Socks Goes Hollywood written by Nancy McArthur and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A movie company has rolled into town and they need some unusual plants to make Carter Swamp look creepier. Plants Stanley and Fluffy are perfect.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1046 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mirabella written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dennis McDougal
Publisher : Open Road Media Books
ISBN 13 : 9781504023153
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mother's Day written by Dennis McDougal and published by Open Road Media Books. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gruesome true story of a murderous modern-day Medea In June of 1985, Theresa Cross Knorr, with the help of her teenage sons, dumped the body of her daughter Sheila in California's desolate High Sierra. Knorr had beaten Sheila unconscious 3 days earlier, then locked her in a closet to die. This unbelievable yet true tale of a monstrous, abusive mother murdering not 1 but 2 of her children is almost too horrific to describe. The previous summer, in an attempt to erase evidence that she had shot Sheila's sister Suesan, Knorr had dug the bullet out of the girl's back with a paring knife. Deprived of proper medical care, Suesan had quickly developed a severe infection, prompting Knorr and her 2 sons to drive the delirious child into the mountains where they doused her with gasoline and set her on fire. Knorr got away with both murders for nearly 9 years, until her youngest daughter, Terry Knorr Graves, revealed the dark secret of her mother's unfathomable actions to the police. How could a parent so callously kill her own kids? Mother's Day depicts the shocking life of a woman whose violence, jealousy, rage, and domination led to brutally heinous crimes of ruthless ferocity. Dennis McDougal is the author of 11 books, including Dylan: The Biography, The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood, and the true crime books Angel of Darkness and Mother's Day. He is also a coauthor of Blood Cold: Fame, Sex, and Murder in Hollywood. Formerly an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times, McDougal began covering movies and media for the same newspaper in 1983 and, more recently, for the New York Times. His journalism has won over 50 honors, including the National Headliners Award and the Peabody Award.