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Mediating the Family

By Estella Tincknell

Mediating the Family Media & Communication

Mediating the Family

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Taking as its starting point the 'problem' of how the family has been mediated in popular film, television, literature and social policy over the last 50 years, Mediating the Family: Gender, Culture and Representation explores the ways in which struggles over sexuality, identity, gender and power have informed the conceptualisation and representation of the family as an institution and as a site of discursive complexity. Mediating the Family: Gender, Culture and Representation 'unpacks the family', looking in detail at the different generational and identificatory components: motherhood, fatherhood, adolescence and childhood. Using theoretical and critical frameworks from cultural studies, sociology, textual analysis and cultural history, and drawing on original research, case studies and critical analysis from a range of sources from around the world, the book examines the relationship between the intersecting discourses of youth; childhood innocence; post-war companionate marriage; 'bad' families; and entrepreneurial femininity in the 1980s in order to interrogate the representation - and - reinvention of the family. 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
196
Release Date:
2005-03-17
Publication Date:
2005-01-28
Publisher:
A&C Black 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0340740809
ISBN13:
9780340740804
Weight:
307 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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