The main idea of my work

As I mentioned before, the topic of motherhood is very often presented in American cinema. From the middle of 20^th century, when the television became public and more popular, more and more TV programmes were focusing on presenting typical American family.

However, the American Dream motive and the general cult of optimism oriented that kind of art towards light and simple movies and TV series. And that is why American cinema is still unfairly defined as mindless and not ambitious. In my work I want to prove, that regardless being considered as not ambitious and mindless, American cinema can boast with good motherhood-oriented movies. There are plenty of films discussing problematic mother-child relations. I want to choose 3 and analyse them deeply in terms of distracting mother-child tie, its causes and consequences. I will present how mother’s unfulfilled dreams can influence the way they bring up their children.

I find this topic very gripping because everyone has mother and for everyone the relation with her – even when it is not as good as we dream it to be – is the most important relation of all in our lives. It also tones in my seminary name, Media and Power; the movie is one of the most powerful representative of media nowadays and  motherhood is the greatest power of all.