Family Plots: The De-Oedipalization of Popular Culture (Feminist Cultural Studies, the Media, and Political Culture)
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780812215441 (0812215443)
ASIN: 0812215443
Publish date: 1995-08-01
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
"I don't get no respect..." Rodney DangerfieldWhat is a mother's role or value in American society?Or, to word this question more specifically, as Dana Heller does in her work, Family Plots: The De-Oedipalization of Popular Culture (1995), has the position of motherhood been adequately critiqued? F...
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