Mother feels best : mobilizing negative maternal affect as postfeminist critique in contemporary horror cinema
A small child is getting ready for school. His mother dresses him, pulling his jacket over his shoulders. He tries to hug her, emitting a satisfied sigh; she pushes him away. “Don’t do that!” she cries. This sequence occurs at the beginning of Jennifer Kent’s horror film, The Babadook (2014), a fil...
Main Author: | Greer, Amanda |
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Language: | English |
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University of British Columbia
2017
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62708 |
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