“Be patient, dear mother … wait for me”: the neo-infirmity film, female illness and contemporary cinema

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“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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gallagher, Mark
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis 2009
Subjects:	death motherhood representation Terry Schiavo melodrama gender
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34585/

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