Family Plots : The De-Oedipalization of Popular Culture /
Heller, Dana
Family Plots : The De-Oedipalization of Popular Culture / Dana Heller. - 1 online resource (256 p.) - Feminist Cultural Studies, the Media, and Political Culture .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Plotting the Family -- 2. Housebreaking Freud -- 3. The Third Sphere: Television's Romance with the Family -- 4. The Culture of "Momism": Evan S. Conncell's Mrs. Bridge -- 5. Rules of the Game: Anne Tyler's Searching for Caleb -- 6. Father Trouble: Jane Smiley's The Age of Grief -- 7. "A Possible Sharing": Ethnicizing Mother-Daughter Romance in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club -- 8. Reconstructing Kin: Toni Morrison's Beloved -- 9. "Family" Romance (Or, How to Recognize a Queer Text When You Meet One) -- 10. The Lesbian Dick: Policing the Family in Internal Affairs -- 11 . Home Viewing - Terminator 2: Judgment Day -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Family Plots traces the fault lines of the Freudian family romance and holds that the "family plot" is very much alive in post-World War II American culture. It cuts across all genres, insinuating, criticizing, reinforcing, and reinventing itself in all forms of cultural production and consumption. The family romance is everywhere because the family itself is nowhere.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812215441 9781512816808
10.9783/9781512816808 doi
Families in mass media.
Popular culture--History--United States--20th century.
Cultural Studies.
Film Studies.
Literature.
Media Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory.
P94.5.F342 / U655 1995eb
306.85
Family Plots : The De-Oedipalization of Popular Culture / Dana Heller. - 1 online resource (256 p.) - Feminist Cultural Studies, the Media, and Political Culture .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Plotting the Family -- 2. Housebreaking Freud -- 3. The Third Sphere: Television's Romance with the Family -- 4. The Culture of "Momism": Evan S. Conncell's Mrs. Bridge -- 5. Rules of the Game: Anne Tyler's Searching for Caleb -- 6. Father Trouble: Jane Smiley's The Age of Grief -- 7. "A Possible Sharing": Ethnicizing Mother-Daughter Romance in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club -- 8. Reconstructing Kin: Toni Morrison's Beloved -- 9. "Family" Romance (Or, How to Recognize a Queer Text When You Meet One) -- 10. The Lesbian Dick: Policing the Family in Internal Affairs -- 11 . Home Viewing - Terminator 2: Judgment Day -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Family Plots traces the fault lines of the Freudian family romance and holds that the "family plot" is very much alive in post-World War II American culture. It cuts across all genres, insinuating, criticizing, reinforcing, and reinventing itself in all forms of cultural production and consumption. The family romance is everywhere because the family itself is nowhere.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812215441 9781512816808
10.9783/9781512816808 doi
Families in mass media.
Popular culture--History--United States--20th century.
Cultural Studies.
Film Studies.
Literature.
Media Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory.
P94.5.F342 / U655 1995eb
306.85