Mothers of Invention

By: Rashna Wadia Richards • Claire Perkins • Missy Molloy • Sara Saljoughi • Jules Arita Koostachin • Kristi McKim • Elinor Cleghorn • Susan Berridge • Maria Cabrera • Corinn Columpar • Tamsyn Dent • Kristy Guevara-Flanagan • Alice Haylett Bryan • Irene Lusztig • So Mayer • Tessa Ashlin Nunn • Elissa Rashkin

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Synopsis

Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Laborconstructs a feminist genealogy that foregrounds the relationship between acts of production on the one hand and reproduction on the other. In this interdisciplinary collection, editors So Mayer and Corinn Columpar bring together film and media studies with parenting studies to stake out a field, or at least a conversation, that is thick with historical and theoretical dimension and invested in cultural and methodological plurality.

In four sections and sixteen contributions, the manuscript reflects on how caregiving shapes the work of filmmakers, how parenting is portrayed on screen, and how media contributes to radical new forms of care and expansive definitions of mothering. Featuring an exciting array of approaches—including textual analysis, industry studies, ethnographic research, production histories, and personal reflection—Mothers of Invention is a multifaceted collection of feminist work that draws on the methods of both the humanities and the social sciences, as well as the insights borne of both scholarship and lived experience. Grounding this inquiry is analysis of a broad range of texts with global reach—from

the films Bashu, The Little Stranger (Bahram Beyzai, 1989), Prevenge (Alice Lowe, 2016), and A

Deal with the Universe (Jason Barker, 2018) to the television series Top of the Lake (2013–2017)

and Jane the Virgin (2014–2019), among others—as well as discussion of the creative practices,

be they related to production, pedagogy, curation, or critique, employed by a wide variety of film

and media artists and/or scholars.

Mothers of Invention demonstrates how the discourse of parenting and caregiving allows the discipline to

expand its discursive frameworks to address, and redress, current theoretical, political, and social debates about the interlinked futures of work and the world. This collection belongs on the bookshelves of students and scholars of cinema and media studies, feminist and queer media studies, labor studies, filmmaking and production, and cultural studies.

Book Details

Book Quality:
ISBN-13:: 9780814348543
Publisher:: Wayne State University Press
Date of Addition:: 2022-04-05T07:28:05Z
Language:: English
Categories:: Art and Architecture, Entertainment, History, Nonfiction, Social Studies,
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.