Representation of abortion in selected film and television

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dc.contributor.authorBarrington, Claire Ann
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-17T12:53:48Z
dc.date.available2017-05-17T12:53:48Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionA dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Arts. Johannesburg, 2016en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation argues that the representation of abortion provides a platform which reveals women’s societal and gendered positions, and provides a critique of the hypocritical attitudes to which societies subject women. I will be considering various representations of abortion in six films and two television shows. The films are Alexander Kluge’s Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (1973), Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake (2004), Fruit Chan’s Dumplings (2004), The Pang Brother’s Re-Cycle (2006) and Ridley Scott’s Prometheus (2012). The two television shows are FX’s American Horror Story (2011—) and ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy (2005—). Each text provides a unique representation of abortion, often situating the issue within particular physical, social, political and cultural locations. In presenting a close reading of each text, I will show how the representation of abortion in each chapter relates to differing social, political and cultural ideologies. I will argue that there is a developing sense of the lived realities of women, which include, but are not limited to, issues of alienation, autonomy, agency and identity. Such lived realties, I will contend, are constructed within societies that, aware or not of the fact, are dominated by patriarchal influences.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianMT2017en_ZA
dc.format.extentOnline resource (215 leaves)
dc.identifier.citationBarrington, Clare Ann (2016) Representation of abortion in selected film and television, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <http://hdl.handle.net/10539/22639>
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/22639
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshAbortion--Drama
dc.subject.lcshWomen in motion pictures
dc.titleRepresentation of abortion in selected film and televisionen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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