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The Routledge Handbook of Motherhood on Screen

Edited by Susan Liddy and Deirdre Flynn

Type
Studies
Subject
Sociology
Keywords
sociology, women, family
Publishing date
2025 (April 25, 2025) (Upcoming)
Publisher
Routledge
Collection
Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Handbooks
Language
English
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Hardcover • 488 pages
6 ¼ x 9 inches (16 x 23 cm)
ISBN
978-1-032-48572-0
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Book Presentation:
The Routledge Handbook of Motherhood on Screen offers a comprehensive global analysis of the representation of Mothers and Motherhood in contemporary screen industries and online spaces. Over five distinct sections, this handbook examines how the complexities and realities of contemporary motherhood are translated to the screen.

Offering a full scholarly overview of the field, this handbook provides a ground-breaking and important contribution to our understanding of motherhood on screen. The geographical and genre reach of the handbook presents new ways of theorising and reframing current scholarly debate, and gives a wide-ranging and comprehensive contribution to knowledge of on-screen representations. An international team of established scholars and emerging voices provide analysis of representations from around the world, spanning a breadth of genres. The chapters situate transnational screen representations of motherhood in the 21st Century and assess the implications of contemporary representation of motherhood.

Thoroughly challenging and expanding understandings of motherhood and mothers, this handbook will be an essential multi-faceted publication for researchers and students of film, TV, animation, motherhood, gender studies, feminism, ageing studies, anthropology and sociology.

About the authors:
Susan Liddy lectures in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at MIC, Limerick. Her research interests and publications relate primarily to gender and diversity issues in the Irish screen industries; older women on screen and behind the camera; motherhood and caring; and harmful behaviours in the screen industries workplace. She is President of Women in Film and Television International and Chair of Women in Film and Television Ireland. She is a board member of the Writers Guild of Ireland, Raising Films Ireland and the Irish Film Institute. She is the Director of the Catalyst International Film Festival in Limerick - a festival that prioritises films and filmmakers from underrepresented groups.Deirdre Flynn is Lecturer in 21st-Century Literature at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick and a member of the Young Academy of Ireland at the Royal Irish Academy. She has published widely on contemporary literature, precarity, migration literature and Irish studies. She is the secretary of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature (IASIL).

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