Browsing Film (Scholarly Publications) by Subject "Film Studies"
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'I can't leave her': Maternal Gothic/Horror in Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018), Relic (Natalie Erika James, 2020), and You Are Not My Mother (Kate Dolan, 2021)
(Routledge, 2025)If it is the case that Mrs Bates gave birth to the modern American horror film, then her successors continue to disrupt family dynamics in ways that speak to contemporary Western cultural anxieties around the maternal ... -
The Spectacle of Suffering: The 'Woman's Film' and Lars von Trier
(2012)Many of the films of Lars von Trier can be situated within the context of the ‘woman's film’ and, more specifically, within its subgenre of the maternal melodrama. However, the films' intensification of the investments ...
