Race, class, and the pressure to pass in American maternal melodrama: The case of Stella Dallas

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King Vidor's film "Stella Dallas" highlights the complex representations of motherhood in American culture by narrating the story of a working-class woman who aspires that her daughter gain acceptance in her father's upper-class environment to discover that her own lack of pedigree threatens her child's social future. The drama of self-sacrifice and maternal disappearance in this film communicates the American maternal melodrama pattern.

Social aspects, Analysis, Portrayals, Criticism and interpretation, Works, Motherhood, Working mothers, Stella Dallas (Motion picture), Vidor, King Wallis

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From evidentiary presentation to art-ful re-presentation: Media images, civil rights documentaries, and the audiovisual writing of history

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Documentaries that offer an alternative aesthetic to the history of civil rights to be used in the archival televisual material are analyzed. The documentary, 'The Man and the Dream' that stands out from others because of its awareness of and play with layered representations of the civil rights movement, is reviewed.

All Other Publishers, Miscellaneous publishing, Audio-Visual Aids, Evaluation, Media coverage, Civil rights movements, Documentary television programs, Television documentaries, Audiovisual materials, Audio-visual materials

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