Bibliograph

Mom in the movies, the iconic screen mothers you love (and a few you love to hate), by Richard Corliss ; foreword by Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher

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Label

Mom in the movies, the iconic screen mothers you love (and a few you love to hate), by Richard Corliss ; foreword by Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mom in the movies

Oclc number

852226580

Responsibility statement

by Richard Corliss ; foreword by Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher

Sub title

the iconic screen mothers you love (and a few you love to hate)

Summary

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

Table Of 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!

Target audience

adult

Classification