“Be patient, dear mother … wait for me”: the neo-infirmity film, female illness and contemporary cinema
In social reality, illness and death occur in myriad ways, yet Hollywood films have historically preferred spectacular, violent death over realist depictions of the terminal stages of life. Yet an ever-growing number of popular films, which I term neo-infirmity films, incorporate episodes of women c...
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Taylor & Francis
2009
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