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100 1 $aMohabeer, Michelle Angela,$d1961-
245 10 $aDe-familiarizing the familial :$bunveiling the perverse familial through the narrational aesthetics of trauma and the obscene across seminal independent films /$cby Michelle Angela Mohabeer.
260 $c2006.
300 $av, 197 leaves.
500 $aSource: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-01, Section: A, page: 0368.
502 $aThesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2006.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (leaves [187]-197).
506 $aElectronic version licensed for access by U. of T. users.
520 $aThis interdisciplinary film studies dissertation engages in close readings of four independent texts: Eve's Bayou (1997), Madame Sata (2002), Far From Heaven (2002) and Monster's Ball (2001) through which I analyze the representations of the perverse familial via the narrational aesthetics of trauma and the obscene. My project unveils how social categories of the family, race, sexuality, gender and class are reconstructed and reconstituted as perverse structures, via the narrational aesthetics of trauma and the obscene that operates in these texts.Drawing on an interdisciplinary approach to inform my reading of the films, I infuse film studies textual analysis and genre criticism, with a marinade of black, literary and queer studies. I foreground across four chapters the various styles that these familial texts embody, ranging from the merging of black independent textual concerns with a melodramatic mode in Eve's Bayou, the staging of the queer biopic aesthetics of Madame Sata , a rewriting of 1950's family melodramas in Far From Heaven , and a postmodern drama that evokes the plotting of the 'male weepie,' in Monster's Ball.
650 0 $aFamily in motion pictures.
650 0 $aDeviant behavior in art.
650 0 $aDeviant behavior in mass media.
650 0 $aIndependent films.
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