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Article: From Stella Dallas to Lila Lipscomb: reading real motherhood through reel motherhood *.
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- West Virginia University Philological Papers
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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This essay traces a history of motherhood in American narrative cinema, but I want to start with an image that falls outside those parameters, since it is documentary. Michael Moore's latest film, Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) introduces us to forty-nine-year-old Lila Lipscomb. Lipscomb is from Moore's hometown of Flint, Michigan, which, as another interviewee points out, looks, in places, not unlike Baghdad. A former welfare mother, Lipscomb now counsels women on public assistance. Early in the film, she describes her family's commitment to the Armed Services, a commitment that, to her, involves a better future for her children. She caresses a rainbow cross she wears, ...
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...Sue Cary Lipscomb, 92, a lifetime resident of Roanoke, Va., died ... Cemetery. Survivors include three sons, William O. Lipscomb III (Kay), of Chiefland, Fla., H. Guy Lipscomb (Sandy) and Michael C. Lipscomb, all of Tupelo ...
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