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Danish Mothers On-Screen (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Danish Mothers On-Screen (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender
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This book combines content analysis of film and television cases,
the examination of policy documents, and first-hand interview
material with Danish industry professionals, tracing the pivotal
moments in media and welfare state history to unite these two
overlapping spheres: welfare state social policy and media imagery.
In doing so, it addresses a gap in existing academic and policy
documents to demonstrate how motherhood and femininity are
presented in contemporary state-supported Danish screen fiction. As
an industry premised on state funding and public service values,
Danish screen fiction plays a cogent role in shaping and
communicating cultural norms and provides a space for the
cultivation of belonging and a sense of a shared identity. For this
reason, it is vital to identify and examine representational trends
and patterns in popular media formats. This book argues that the
political narrative of gender equality, democracy and universal
social support that permeates Danish state policy is undermined in
screen fiction, wherein working mother characters are problematised
and the welfare system's integrity is challenged. This book asserts
that the framing of femininity, motherhood and citizenship in many
contemporary Danish films and television dramas indicates a
cultural concern about the welfare state's institutionalisation of
caregiving and presents absent mothers as an indirect cause of
crime, trauma or social unrest.
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