The Maternal and Feminist Film Theory

Abstract

The intriguing title of Lauren Bliss’s first book suggests the confluence of two discourses that are rarely paired in film studies: [feminist] film theory and the maternal. The first is framed in this study as a system that offers essential observations about the place of representation in culture, but is in need of interrogation because of what is felt to be its detrimental effect on lived life. The final line of the introductory chapter states the book’s intention