The sinful maternal motherhood in possession films / Lauren Rocha.
| Author/creator | Rocha, Lauren |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2024] |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Horror & monstrosity studies series Horror and monstrosity studies series. ^A1473619 |
| Contents | Acknowledgments -- Introduction. It comes from inside: horror, home, and possession -- Chapter 1. Possessed by pregnancy: "Rosemary's Baby" -- Chapter 2. Puberty as Hell: "The Exorcist" -- Chapter 3. The house remembers: "The Amityville Horror" -- Chapter 4. Danger all around: "Insidious" and "Insidious: Chapter 2" -- Chapter 5. Mother as exorcist: "The Conjuring" and "The Conjuring 2" -- Chapter 6. Traumatic motherhood: "The Babadook" -- Chapter 7. The Devil's promise: "The Witch" -- Chapter 8. Matrilineal legacy: "Hereditary" -- Conclusion. Motherhood revisited -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index. |
| Abstract | "Pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery are challenging experiences that impact women's physical, mental, and emotional health in ways that have been historically minimalized, dismissed, or neglected. A mother's body becomes a public body, physically and politically not her own, instead shared by her spouse, her children, and those around her. Her body, therefore, makes the perfect vessel for an invasive presence-or possession. The Sinful Maternal: Motherhood in Possession Films examines the role of mothers and motherhood in ten possession films, including Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, The Babadook, and Hereditary. Chapters discuss the work of such directors as James Wan, Jennifer Kent, Robert Eggers, and Ari Aster to address how their cinematic approaches to these films produce rich possession narratives that explore different facets of motherhood and women's agency. Working at the intersections of gender studies, architectural theory, trauma studies, and monster theory, with a particular focus on the treatment of (often unruly) female bodies, author Lauren Rocha investigates the ways in which motherhood is a fertile state for possession and how possession acts to influence, destabilize, and reshape identity and the self. Placing the films in chronological order, she closely analyzes the ways in which sociocultural influences create different roles women and mothers are expected to perform. Ultimately, Rocha demonstrates how possession offers a way to challenge performative motherhood to free the self"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Rocha, Lauren. Sinful maternal Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2024] 9781496851734 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023054138 |
| ISBN | 9781496851789 (pdf) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781496851758 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9781496851765 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9781496851772 (pdf) |
| ISBN | (trade paperback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |