>I am wondering if anybody might have any ideas on recent films depicting >single mothers -- either as main characters or incidental characters? >(By recent films, I >mean post 1960 -- I guess it's not that recent, huh?) If you could start your project one year before 1960, I would strongly recommend *Imitation of Life* (1959), Douglas Sirk. The issue of single motherhood *is* the film and what makes it such a worthwile text is that the two single mothers belong to two different races. Also, you might want to look at Lucy Fischer's *Cinematernity: Film, Motherhood, Genre* (1996), an excellent study of this topic. As well as E. Ann Kaplan's *Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama* (1992). Finally, Mary Ann Doane's chapter "Pathos and the Maternal" in *The Desire to Desire* (1987). Gloria Monti ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.