Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Tincknell, Estella

Publication

London : Hodder Arnold, 2005.

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Details

Description

vi, 186 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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.

Subject

• Families
• Families in mass media
• Gender identity in mass media
• Families in mass media

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-173) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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

ISBN

0340740809 (pbk.)

LCCN

9780340740804

OCLC

• 57006220
• SCSB-11481986

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library