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DON'T WORRY: A PERSONAL DOCUMENTARY OF MY GRANDMOTHER AND AN EXPLORATION OF THEMES OF MOTHERHOOD, LONELINESS, AND LATER LIFE

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Date Issued:
2019
Abstract/Description:
The intent for this thesis is to to explore the ideologies of my grandmother and to learn from them. I do so by filming and editing a documentary with Grandma serving as my subject. She is a woman who has been very present in my life and who has lived and bestowed so much upon me that I still remain wanting more. I wish to know much more of her mind now than I did as a child of simpler times and ponderings. I have spent close to a year shooting and assembling this film that explores the nature of my grandmother and how I might learn from who she is. I do so through means of experimental and documentary conventions. I've researched the psychology of older women in a means to come to an even clearer understanding of Grandma, as well. There is perhaps an unconscious ignorance of women of older age: being that women are seen as child bearers that lower in value once you are no longer capable. My grandmother never had children of her own; she is my father's stepmother. Examining her maternal nature has brought about the question of the very definition of motherhood.
Title: DON'T WORRY: A PERSONAL DOCUMENTARY OF MY GRANDMOTHER AND AN EXPLORATION OF THEMES OF MOTHERHOOD, LONELINESS, AND LATER LIFE.
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Name(s): Wilson, Olivia A, Author
Danker, Lisa, Committee Chair
University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor
Type of Resource: text
Date Issued: 2019
Publisher: University of Central Florida
Language(s): English
Abstract/Description: The intent for this thesis is to to explore the ideologies of my grandmother and to learn from them. I do so by filming and editing a documentary with Grandma serving as my subject. She is a woman who has been very present in my life and who has lived and bestowed so much upon me that I still remain wanting more. I wish to know much more of her mind now than I did as a child of simpler times and ponderings. I have spent close to a year shooting and assembling this film that explores the nature of my grandmother and how I might learn from who she is. I do so through means of experimental and documentary conventions. I've researched the psychology of older women in a means to come to an even clearer understanding of Grandma, as well. There is perhaps an unconscious ignorance of women of older age: being that women are seen as child bearers that lower in value once you are no longer capable. My grandmother never had children of her own; she is my father's stepmother. Examining her maternal nature has brought about the question of the very definition of motherhood.
Identifier: CFH2000528 (IID), ucf:45612 (fedora)
Note(s): 2019-05-01
B.F.A.
Nicholson School of Communication and Media, Film
Bachelors
This record was generated from author submitted information.
Subject(s): motherhood
elderly women
psychology
documentary
filmmaking
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH2000528
Restrictions on Access: public
Host Institution: UCF

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