PCA/ACA
Schedule by area: Motherhood/Fatherhood & Popular Culture
Family and Parenting in Television Dramas: Homeland, This is Us, Atypical, and 13 Reasons Why
Kathryn Pallister| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| This is Not Us: The Problematic Victorian Marital Structure in This Is Us | Amanda E Salmon | Paper | |
| “Safe Has its Advantages”: Conservative Family Values in Homeland | Brenda Boudreau | Paper | |
| Your Typical Atypical Family: Streaming Apolitical Autism on Netflix | Melodie Cardin Miranda J. Brady | Paper | |
| “Are you afraid we’ll understand?” - Parents on Trial in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why | Kathryn Pallister | Paper |
Mothers and Mother Figures in Literature
Liz Podnieks| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Daughter’s Story of Her Mother in Moto Hagio’s Iguana Girl | Kyoko Taniguchi | Paper | |
| Mom Thrillers: Self-Glorification, Self-Flagellation, or Catharsis? | Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz | Paper | |
| “All Disney Nannies Vanish”: Motherhood, Other-Mothers, and “Nanny Lit” | Liz Podnieks | Paper |
Fathers and Fatherhood in Books, Television, Video Games, and Film
Nathan Anderson| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Rhetoric of New Dad Survival Guides: How “Real Men” Raise Kids | Jonathan Seggelke | Paper | |
| So You Think You Can Parent: Televisions Portrayals of Single Fathers and Twitter Users’ Responses | Laurena Bernabo Jennifer Ann Turchi | Paper | |
| From Superheroes to Superzeros: The Wrestler, Birdman, and Bad Dads | Nathan Anderson | Paper |
Moms, Dads and Movies: Marvel, Ladybird, and Frozen River
Greenberry B Taylor| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Daughter’s Soaring Ambitions and Mother’s Growing Pains in Lady Bird | Veeksha Vagmita | Paper | |
| Fences and Bridges: Mothers Making Connections across Borders of Identities | Laura L Beadling Linda Jean Strom | Paper | |
| Murderous, Monstrous, Marvel Mothers | April Toadvine | Paper | |
| Ego and the All-Father: A Critical Examination of Father-Son (Super) Power Dynamics in Two Marvel Films | Greenberry B Taylor Michaela Devyn Mullis | Paper |
Motherhood and Parenting on Television: Anxiety, Ads, American Housewife, and Arrival
Ashley Mattheis| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Power and Anxiety of TV Moms: Using Intersectional Theory to Analyze Motherhood on Popular American Television, 2010-present | Jennie Woodard Keely Gonyea | Paper | |
| “American Housewife”: Reflecting and Reinforcing (Post)Feminist Mothering through Sit Coms | Ashley Mattheis | Paper |
Motherhood, History and Politics
Vicki Toscano| Presenters | Presentation type | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mother of all Stereotypes | Kymme Laetsch | Paper | |
| Fonda, Ginsburg, and Williams: Depictions of the Anti-Supermom in Popular Culture | Katherine Hampsten Elizabeth Fish Hatfield | Paper | |
| The Narratives in Pro-Life and Pro-Choice Politics: What They Tell Us About Motherhood | Vicki Toscano | Paper |