Richard: Are you interested in films that played to mass audiences? If so, how about *Not Without My Daughter*; Sally Field played the title role. I didn't see it, but I believe it was adapted from a book that was essentially a first person accounting of an American mother who was trying to get her daughter back from her ex-husband who was from a Mid-Eastern country; probably highlights cultural differences as well as the extremes of maternal sacrifice. Julie Friedline Media Studies/U of Iowa On Sat, 16 Jan 1993 [log in to unmask] wrote: > I wonder if members of the list can help me with > the following questions. Forgive the number. > > 1. Does anyone have a recent phone number for > Direct Cinema? > > 2. Does anyone know who distributes Godard's > Weekend on 16mm? > > 3. I have been asked to give a public talk at > my university on The Good Mother, a film that I > find fairly boring. I thought however that it > might be interesting to talk about it in terms of > recent incarnations of the maternal melodrama. I'm > interested in compiling a short list of recent > (after 1980) maternal melodramas, films that > center on the relationship between mother and > child. I will really appreciate any help I can > get. > > Thanks in advance, Richard deCordova