Examines the role that parenting, as a theme and practice, plays in
film and media cultures. Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and
Caregiving Labor constructs a feminist genealogy that foregrounds
the relationship between acts of production on the one hand and
reproduction on the other. In this interdisciplinary collection,
editors So Mayer and Corinn Columpar bring together film and media
studies with parenting studies to stake out a field, or at least a
conversation, that is thick with historical and theoretical
dimension and invested in cultural and methodological plurality. In
four sections and sixteen contributions, the manuscript reflects on
how caregiving shapes the work of filmmakers, how parenting is
portrayed on screen, and how media contributes to radical new forms
of care and expansive definitions of mothering. Featuring an
exciting array of approaches-including textual analysis, industry
studies, ethnographic research, production histories, and personal
reflection-Mothers of Invention is a multifaceted collection of
feminist work that draws on the methods of both the humanities and
the social sciences, as well as the insights borne of both
scholarship and lived experience. Grounding this inquiry is
analysis of a broad range of texts with global reach-from the films
Bashu, The Little Stranger (Bahram Beyzai, 1989), Prevenge (Alice
Lowe, 2016), and A Deal with the Universe (Jason Barker, 2018) to
the television series Top of the Lake(2013-2017) and Jane the
Virgin (2014-2019), among others-as well as discussion of the
creative practices, be they related to production, pedagogy,
curation, or critique, employed by a wide variety of film and media
artists and/or scholars. Mothers of Invention demonstrates how the
discourse of parenting and caregiving allows the discipline to
expand its discursive frameworks to address, and redress, current
theoretical, political, and social debates about the interlinked
futures of work and the world. This collection belongs on the
bookshelves of students and scholars of cinema and media studies,
feminist and queer media studies, labor studies, filmmaking and
production, and cultural studies.
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