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 ; TCM Turner Classic Movies

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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 ; TCM Turner Classic Movies

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 ; TCM Turner Classic Movies

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!

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