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Copyright Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca Sep 2014

Abstract

The paper presents a reflection on the embodied experience of mother and representations of motherhood in Western culture, within advertising and television series, documentaries and movies. Typically, motherhood is imagined as the product (having a baby, becoming a parent) and not as the arduous process over the life of a person. It is presents with a universal character and it is used in movies as a strategy when they want to feel emotions: an a-historical mother gives birth, looks at his son, she takes him in her arms, and she loves him, sacrifices and she is next him forever. In other words, it's all worth it if the prize is to become mother. In the collective imagination, these ideas have helped to create the ideal type of mother: how she should act and what value would motherhood in our society. With this premise, I analyze the omissions after the images: we are taking just a simple model of mother who destroy or idealize. Though models of women, mothers, couples and families are many more today.

Details

Title
Experiencias encarnadas. Representaciones audiovisuales de madre(s) y maternidad(es)
Author
Brigidi, Serena
Pages
118-126
Section
Original
Publication year
2014
Publication date
Sep 2014
Publisher
Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
e-ISSN
18855210
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
1682661045
Copyright
Copyright Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca Sep 2014