Mom in the Movies : : the Iconic Screen Mothers you Love (And a few you Love to Hate)
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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!
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: xxi, 231 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781476738260
1476738262
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Turner Classic Movies (Firm)
SUBJECTS
Mothers in motion pictures.