Family, Genre, Auteur

Wheeler Winston Dixon House of Strangers: The Family in Film Noir

James Buhler Everybody Sing: Family, Community, and the Representation of Social Harmony in the Hollywood Musical

Andrew Horton Is It a Wonderful Life? Families and Laughter in American Film Comedies

Walter Metz "Mother Needs You": Kevin Costner's Open Range and the Melodramatics of the American Western

Jennifer M. Bean D. W. Griffith, Families, and the Origins of Amrican Narrative Cinema

William Rothman Blood is Thicker than Water: The Family in Hitchcock

Lucy Fischer "How Do I Love Thee?": Theatricality, Desire, and the Family Melodrama

Politics, Family, Society

Christopher Sharrett Family, Frontier, and the Destruction of the Social Order

Steven Alan Carr How Some Things Never Change: Britney, the Joy of Pepsi, and the Familial Gaze

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster The Corruption of the Family and the Disease of Whiteness in I Walked with a Zombie

Glenn Man Short Cuts to Gosford Park: The Family in Robert Altman

Yvonne Tasker Practically Perfect People: Postfeminism, Masculinity, and Male Parenting in Contemporary Cinema

James Morrison Hostages and Houseguests: Class and Family in the New Screen Gothic

Troubles, Dreams, Family

Marcia Landy Very Far from Heaven: Todd Haynes's Cinematic Family

Harry M. Benshoff Queers and Families in Film: From Problems to Parents

Mary Beth Haralovich Adapting the Family to Murder: Mildred Pierce

Nathan Holmes Playing House: Screen Teens and the Dreamworld of Suburbia

Jerry Mosher  Big Daddies and the Hollywood Myth of Family Capitalism

Adrienne L. McLean Wedding Bells Ring, Storks Are Expected, the Rumors Aren’t True, Divorce Is the Only Answer:  Stardom and Fan-Magazine Family Life in 1950s Hollywood

Murray Pomerance The Look of Love: Cinema and the Dramaturgy of Kinship