Home Movies: The American Family in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema - Couverture rigide

Jenkins, Claire

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1780761821 ISBN 13 : 9781780761824

Editeur : I.B. Tauris, 2015

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Home Movies makes a superb contribution to academic debates about the depiction of families and family values in Hollywood films since the 1990s. Jenkins identifies and explains both traditional family narratives and the emergence of alternative representations of motherhood, fatherhood and childhood in films: from single-parent to gay and lesbian families. This is a well-focused and stimulating book. it constitutes a timely addition to studies of contemporary Hollywood films and family value discourses.

Deborah Chambers, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, Newcastle University

Home Movies is a welcome addition to the growing body of work that deals with cinematic representations of the american family. Focusing in particular on the politics of family values, Jenkins makes an important intervention that broadens the scope of study into this crucially important social formation, and sheds light on an impressive range of films from across the spectrum of recent popular US film. --Hannah Hamad, Lecturer in Film Studies, King s College London

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The American family has long been at the centre of the typical Hollywood narrative. But the depiction of the nuclear family within contemporary mainstream US cinema has not yet been closely studied. Home Movies addresses this oversight by assessing recent cinematic representations of the family in terms of cultural politics and representations of gender, sexuality, race and class. Focusing on a diverse range of popular films - from Meet the Parents to The Incredibles - Claire Jenkins analyses the father-daughter relationship within sequels and series; Meryl Streep's embodiment of the mother; the superhero family and extraordinary manifestations of the ordinary family; disaster films which depict the president as father; 'mom-coms' and Hollywood's representations of the non-traditional family. She combines film studies, gender studies and family history to demonstrate the complexities of Hollywood's family values.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: I.B. Tauris
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1780761821
• ISBN 13: 9781780761824
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224