Carol Mastrangelo Bové is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, and Professor Emerita in French, Westminster College, PA, USA.  She has published Language and Politics in Kristeva: Literature, Art, Therapy (2006) and many articles on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, film, and literary translation.  She has also translated books and articles on psychoanalytic theory and criticism, including Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva.

• Chapter 1: Kristeva’s Theories on Motherhood and Abjection:  Spillers and Halberstam.- Chapter 2: Kristeva’s Impact on Film Studies:  Orson Welles and David Lynch.- Chapter 3: "Allow me a confession:  I love America".- Chapter 4: The Fiction: A Modernist View of America.- Chapter 5: Re-envisioning World Literature and Film:  Rochefort, Savoca, and Lentricchia.

Carol Mastrangelo Bové is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, and Professor Emerita in French, Westminster College, PA, USA.  She has published Language and Politics in Kristeva: Literature, Art, Therapy (2006) and many articles on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, film, and literary translation.  She has also translated books and articles on psychoanalytic theory and criticism, including Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva.

• Chapter 1: Kristeva’s Theories on Motherhood and Abjection:  Spillers and Halberstam.- Chapter 2: Kristeva’s Impact on Film Studies:  Orson Welles and David Lynch.- Chapter 3: "Allow me a confession:  I love America".- Chapter 4: The Fiction: A Modernist View of America.- Chapter 5: Re-envisioning World Literature and Film:  Rochefort, Savoca, and Lentricchia.