Title:
Mom in the movies : the iconic screen mothers you love (and a few you love to hate)
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Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publication Date:
2014
Publication Information:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
©2014.
Physical Description:
xxi, 231 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
ISBN:
9781476738260
Abstract:
Featuring more than one hundred photographs and film stills, a guide to mothers in film, presented by a film historian and critic and Turner Classic Movies, shows the many ways that Hollywood has celebrated, vilified, and poked good fun at mothers.
Contents:
A gallery of Golden Age moms -- Motherhood in the movies / by Sam Robards -- Silent moms -- The mother martyrs of pre-Code -- The Great American mom -- On Jane Darwell in The Grapes of Wrath / by Eva Marie Saint -- Serial moms -- Perennial moms -- On movie motherhood / by Jane Powell -- Aunts -- Mammies and nannies -- A mom by any other name -- When moms collide with their kids -- Bad seeds -- Malevolent moms -- Crime and horror moms -- On being a mother and actress / by Tippi Hedren -- Sci-fi moms -- Showbiz moms -- The greatest mama of them all / by Illeana Douglas -- A gallery of modern moms -- Semper mom!
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Language:
English
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