Imagining the Family in U.S. Postwar Popular Culture: The Case of The Egg and I and Cheaper by the Dozen

2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane F. Levey
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
The Family

Opportunity (Let’s Make Lots of Money)

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-96
Author(s):  
Melissa Vosen Callens
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Conspicuous Consumption ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Income Gap ◽  
The Family ◽  
Economic Landscape ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter three describes how the economic landscape of the 1980s heavily influenced the family dynamics discussed in chapter two, with careful attention to the widening income gap and the paradoxical rise of conspicuous consumption. The chapter demonstrates how access to the American Dream—or lack thereof—is represented in 1980s popular culture and Stranger Things, reflecting and generating increased cynicism of Gen Xers. While many films of the 1980s fail to explore the relationship between economic power and social and political power, Stranger Things does so, but does so implicitly.

New Thoughts on "The Oldest Vocation": Mothers and Motherhood in Recent Feminist ScholarshipApache Mothers and Daughters: Four Generations of a Family. Ruth McDonald Boyer , Narcissus Duffy GaytonMother-Infant Bonding: A Scientific Fiction. Diane E. EyerShelley's Goddess: Maternity, Language and Subjectivity. Barbara Charlesworth GelpiMotherhood by Choice: Pioneers in Women's Health and Family Planning. Perdita HustonMothers of Incest Survivors: Another Side of the Story. Janis Tyler JohnsonMotherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama. E. Ann KaplanMotherhood and Sexuality. Marie Langer , Nancy Caro HollanderWelfare States and Working Mothers: The Scandinavian Experience. Arnlaug LeiraProtecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Post-War Germany. Robert G. MoellerSocial Support and Motherhood. Ann OakleyThe Anchor of My Life: Middle-Class American Mothers and Daughters, 1880-1920. Linda W. RosenzweigCenturies of Solace: Expressions of Maternal Grief in Popular Literature. Barbara Katz Rothman , Wendy SimondsProtecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States. Theda SkocpolLives Together/Worlds Apart: Mothers and Daughters in Popular Culture. Suzanna Danuta Walters

Signs ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 397-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Ross
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
Incest Survivors ◽  
The Family ◽  
Post War

Maternal Bonds: Recent Literature on MotheringApache Mothers and Daughters: Four Generations of a Family. Ruth McDonald Boyer , Narcissus Duffy GaytonMother-Infant Bonding: A Scientific Fiction. Diane E. EyerShelley's Goddess: Maternity, Language and Subjectivity. Barbara Charlesworth GelpiMotherhood by Choice: Pioneers in Women's Health and Family Planning. Perdita HustonMothers of Incest Survivors: Another Side of the Story. Janis Tyler JohnsonMotherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama. E. Ann KaplanMotherhood and Sexuality. Marie Langer , Nancy Caro HollanderWelfare States and Working Mothers: The Scandinavian Experience. Arnlaug LeiraProtecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Post-War Germany. Robert G. MoellerSocial Support and Motherhood. Ann OakleyThe Anchor of My Life: Middle-Class American Mothers and Daughters, 1880-1920. Linda W. RosenzweigCenturies of Solace: Expressions of Maternal Grief in Popular Literature. Barbara Katz Rothman , Wendy SimondsProtecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States. Theda SkocpolLives Together/Worlds Apart: Mothers and Daughters in Popular Culture. Suzanna Danuta Walters

Signs ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 414-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Adams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
Incest Survivors ◽  
The Family ◽  
Post War

One Tough Cookie: Exploring Black Women’s Responses to Empire’s Cookie Lyon

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-304
Author(s):  
Melissa A Click ◽  
Sarah Smith-Frigerio
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Black Female ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
The Family ◽  
Women Viewers ◽  
Group Interviews

Abstract The premier of Empire in January 2015 drew 9.8 million viewers and became FOX's highest-rated series debut in three years. In this episode, we are introduced to the terminally-ill CEO of Empire Entertainment, Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard), who must decide which of his three sons will inherit the family business. To further complicate the decision, his ex-wife, Cookie (Taraji P. Henson), is released from prison after 17 years. The strength of the performances from the main cast, and those of celebrity guest stars, bolster the drama that unfolds, explaining why Empire was incredibly popular with audiences, and black audiences in particular. We examine the series's representations of blackness through focus group interviews with 31 black women viewers, exploring how they made sense of Cookie and compared her to black female leads on other series. Our interviews reveal that Cookie's complexities inspire identification and anxiety, engage broader debates about popular culture representations, and clarify black women's desires to see multifaceted images of themselves and their communities on television.

A heteropatriarchy in moderation: Reading family in a Thai Boys Love lakhon

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-94
Author(s):  
Ying-kit Chan
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Parental Acceptance ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Impact

A subgenre of popular culture, Thai Boys Love (BL) series is increasingly significant within Asia, but it remains under-researched in the light of new series that push the parameters of viewer acceptance of homoerotic romance in Thai society. Drawing upon a close reading of the BL lakhon Love by Chance, this article explicates how Thai cultural concepts surrounding the family are reflected in the series. While acknowledging the impact of East Asian popular culture on Thai understandings of gender and sexuality, the article highlights how the themes of familial dynamics and parental acceptance in Love by Chance represent a glocalization of the BL genre, or BL with Thai characteristics. By introducing the concept of ‘moderated heteropatriarchy’ and sketching the role of family in Thai queer lives, the article suggests that there is still space for subtle challenges or changes to the heteronormative structure as plotted in Love by Chance, even as the lakhon continues to uphold national and patriarchal principles that deny overt expressions of homoerotic romance.

scholarly journals O familie model şi rezonanţa ei în comunitate

2021 ◽  
pp. 58-69
Author(s):  
Tudor Colac ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Social Unit ◽  
Individual Life ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The Family ◽  
Work Technique

Ethnographic studies have revealed the importance of the family in the development of popular culture among Romanians, highlighting its role in transmitting old creative traditions in art and its wide receptivity to innovations in current work technique. In this context, the author concludes that the family presents itself as a constant in the process of shaping the culture and civilization of a people, but also as a source of values that is continuously implemented in the reality of community and individual life. Its appearance is the result of a long and complex process, which has its beginning in the early stages of the development of the family as a social unit. In the present approach, the author discusses a family of musicians, who became a model for the locals of Costiceni village, revealing the spiritual values of resonance that it generated over the years to the rural community from which it draws its roots. Insisting on the spiritual side, he will demonstrate how this social constant has survived and how over the years it has become a generative example of culture and civilization in the genuine environment, thanks to its functions: ethical, educational, psychological, political, legal and religious.

scholarly journals Językowo-kulturowy obraz dziecka w gwarach góralskich

Adeptus ◽  
2014 ◽  
pp. 81-95
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Gotówka
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Family ◽  
Polish Language

The linguistic and cultural child image in Gorale dialectsThe child image has not been examined in detail by dialectologists to date. However, researchers of standard Polish language and popular culture are interested in this subject. The paper analyses the reconstruction of the linguistic child image in many Gorale dialects (Podhale, Orawa, Spisz, Slask Cieszynski, Zywiecczyzna, Bukowina). Examples have been taken from regional and dialect dictionaries from the years 1900 - 2011, from proverbs and various mass media texts.Vocabulary which conceptualizes the child image in Gorale dialects is rich and interesting not only from a formal and stylistic point of view, but also, and it is worth mentioning, its origins and geography which are very diverse.This vocabulary reflects the people's relationships and traditions. It reveals the emotions and hierarchy of values, which are typical not only for Gorale but also reflect Polish people's attitude towards the family. Językowo-kulturowy obraz dziecka w gwarach góralskichObraz dziecka jest jak dotąd dość słabo spenetrowanym przez dialektologów obszarem badawczym, wzbudza natomiast zainteresowanie badaczy polszczyzny standardowej (ogólnej) i kultury popularnej. W artykule przeprowadzam rekonstrukcję językowego obrazu dziecka w szeroko rozumianych gwarach góralskich (Podhale, Orawa, Spisz, Śląsk Cieszyński, Żywiecczyzna, Bukowina) na podstawie materiału wyekscerpowanego ze słowników gwarowych i regionalnych, opublikowanych w latach 1900 – 2011, paremii i wybranych tekstów medialnych.Słownictwo służące konceptualizacji dziecka w gwarach góralskich jest bogate i ciekawe nie tylko pod względem formalnym i stylistycznym, ale też, co trzeba podkreślić, zróżnicowane pod względem pochodzenia i geografii. W leksyce nazywającej dziecko w gwarach góralskich odzwierciedla się bogata sieć relacji międzyludzkich, tradycji, ujawniają się emocje i hierarchia wartości, które możemy odnieść nie tylko do mentalności górali, ale w ogóle do postrzegania rodziny przez Polaków.

Solidarity: Kin, Party, Neighborhood

2018 ◽  
pp. 65-106
Author(s):  
Hannah Pollin-Galay
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
English Language ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
Yiddish Literature ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Social Belonging ◽  
The Family ◽  
19Th And 20Th Century ◽  
Parent Child Relationships

This chapter explores how witnesses define social belonging before, during, and after the Holocaust. The most visible treatments of “the Holocaust family” in scholarship and popular culture build off of a psychotherapeutic vocabulary, which highlights parent-child relationships and the transmission of Holocaust trauma through intimate relationships. This approach is most illuminating when studying testimonies from the English-language American ecology, in which personal experience is the main building block of narrative. Revealing different base assumptions about solidarity, witnesses from the Yiddish-Lithuanian and Hebrew-Israeli ecologies place themselves and their kin on a continuum with larger social spheres. Conversations develop around two different variations of “the Jewish ‘body politic,’” a term from Dan Miron’s reading of 19th and 20th century Hebrew and Yiddish literature. In Yiddish testimonies, this collective protagonist appears fluid, informally defined. The family is part of a larger network that is termed the “eygene,” literally “one’s own.” Witnesses tend to incorporate an extensive cast of local characters into their testimonies and let the criteria of being an “eygene” shift with the circumstances of war.

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