A first-rate anthology of from the dawn of television studies from some to the ground-breaking top thinkers in cinema studies of the late 1970s-early 1980s. Profound, Protean, and Provocative.

Regarding Television: Critical Approaches- An Anthology (The American Film INstitute Monograph Series, Vol. 2)

Humor & Entertainment

Kaplan, E. Ann

Movies

Praeger

From novels of the nineteenth century to films of the 1990s, American culture, abounds with images of white, middle-class mothers. In Motherhood and Representation, E. Ann Kaplan considers how the mother appears in three related spheres: the historical, in which she charts changing representations of the mother from 1830 to the postmodernist present; the psychoanalytic, which discusses theories of the mother from Freud to Lacan and the French Feminists; and the mother as she is figured in cultural representations: in literary and film texts such as East Lynne, Marnie and the The Handmaid's Tale, as well as in journalism and popular manuals on motherhood. Kaplan's analysis identifies two dominant paradigms of the mother as `Angel' and `Witch', and charts the contesting and often contradictory discourses of the mother in present-day America.

Motherhood and Representation

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Routledge

Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama

From nineteenth century novels to films in the 1990s, American culture abounds with the images of white, middle-class mothers. Kaplan looks at how they appear in the psychoanalytic, historical and cultural spheres.

Reference

Women & Film: Both sides of the camera

Written with unequivocal enthusiasm for film, feminism and theory, Women and Film" is a welcome and useful guide to a complex area" - "The Arts"

Women & Film

Discusses the history of MTV (Music Television) and rock videos, and discusses their affect on popular culture

Rocking Around the Clock: Music Television, Post Modernism and Consumer Culture

Television

Ann Kaplan examines the cultural context of MTV and its relationship to the history of rock music. The first part of the book focuses on MTV as a commerical institution. In the second, Kaplan identifies five distinct types of video. There are detailed analyses of videos by Bruce Springsteen, Billy Idol, Paul Young, Madonna, Tina Turner, Pat Benatar, Annie Lennox, and Aretha Franklin, and discussion of many more. Kaplan focuses particularly on gender issues in videos by both male and female stars.

Rocking around the clock: Music television, postmodernism, and consumer culture

What happens when white people look at non-whites? What happens when the gaze is returned? Looking for the Other responds to criticisms leveled at white feminist film theory of the 1970s and 1980s for its neglect of issues to do with race. It focuses attention on the male gaze across cultures, as illustrated by women filmmakers of color whose films deal with travel. Looking relations are determined by history, tradition, myth; by national identity, power hierarchies, politics, economics, geographical and other environment. Travel implicitly involves looking at, and looking relations with, peoples different from oneself. Featured films include Birth of a Nation, The Cat People, Home of the Brave, Black Narcissus, Chocolat, and Warrior Marks. Featured filmmakers include D.W.Griffith, Jacques Tourneur, Michael Powell, Julie Dash, Pratibha Parmar, Trinh T. Min-ha, and Claire Denis.

Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

"Written with unequivocal enthusiasm for film, feminism and theory, "Women and Film" is a welcome and useful guide to a complex area."--"The Arts"

Women and Film Both Sides of the Camera

Methuen University Paperbacks

Kaplan examines the cultural context of MTV and its relationship to the history of rock music.

METHUEN

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Regarding Television: Critical Approaches- An Anthology (The American Film INstitute Monograph Series, Vol. 2)

Motherhood and Representation

Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama

Women & Film

Rocking Around the Clock: Music Television, Post Modernism and Consumer Culture

Rocking around the clock: Music television, postmodernism, and consumer culture

Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze

Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze

Women and Film Both Sides of the Camera

Rocking around the clock: Music television, postmodernism, and consumer culture