Mediating the family : gender, culture, and representation / Estella Tincknell.

By:

Tincknell, Estella [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : New York : Arnold, 2005Description: vi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0340740809
9780340740804

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.85 22

LOC classification:

HQ518 .T49 2005

Contents:

Introduction : the family, politics and identity -- 1. Nuclear family values? : meanings and mediations from the 1940s to the 1960s -- 2. The impossibility of maternity : the family saga and entrepreneurial femininity in the 1980s -- 3. Paternity suits : reclaiming fatherhood -- 4. Lost innocents : childhood in contemporary media -- 5. Teenage kicks : constructing adolescence -- 6. Family pathologies and pluralities : reinventing the family from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Review: "This new book takes as its starting point the long cultural shadow that the nuclear ideal has cast over how the family has been mediated in popular film, television, literature and social policy over the last 50 years. The book explores the ways in which struggles over sexuality, identity, gender and power have informed the conceptualization and representation of the family as an institution and as a site of discursive complexity." "Mediating the Family: Gender, Culture and Representation is an important intervention in debates about family relationships and will be essential reading for scholars and students of cultural, film and media studies, sociology and cultural history."--BOOK JACKET.

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"This new book takes as its starting point the long cultural shadow that the nuclear ideal has cast over how the family has been mediated in popular film, television, literature and social policy over the last 50 years. The book explores the ways in which struggles over sexuality, identity, gender and power have informed the conceptualization and representation of the family as an institution and as a site of discursive complexity." "Mediating the Family: Gender, Culture and Representation is an important intervention in debates about family relationships and will be essential reading for scholars and students of cultural, film and media studies, sociology and cultural history."--BOOK JACKET.

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