... SUBVERSIVE VOICES IN CONTEMPORARY MOTHERHOOD: THE RHETORIC OF RESISTANCE IN INDEPENDENT FILM NARRATIVES Interpretive textual analysis, informed by a feminist perspective, is applied to five independent ... Stranger,” The Sister,” The Wife,” The Mother,” and The Dead Girl.” At the beginning of the film, a middle-aged woman, Arden, who is the sole caretaker of her mother, finds the body of the murdered ... portrayals of mothers in film fails to address the representation of motherhood exclusively in contemporary independent films Independent film can arguably be a site of deviation from a Hollywood-influenced,...