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Fertile Visions
The Uterus as a Narrative Space in Cinema from the Americas
Fertile Visions
The Uterus as a Narrative Space in Cinema from the Americas
Description
Fertile Visions conceptualises the uterus as a narrative space so that the female reproductive body can be understood beyond the constraints of a gendered analysis. Unravelling pregnancy from notions of maternity and mothering demands that we think differently about narratives of reproduction. This is crucial in the current global political climate wherein the gender-specificity of pregnancy contributes to how bodies that reproduce are marginalised, controlled, and criminalised. Anne Carruthers demonstrates fascinating and insightful close analyses of films such as Juno, Birth, Ixcanul and Arrival as examples of the uterus as a narrative space. Fertile Visions engages with research on the foetal ultrasound scan as well as phenomenologies, affect and spectatorship in film studies to offer a new way to look, think and analyse pregnancy and the pregnant body in cinema from the Americas.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Text
Introduction
Chapter One
Challenging the Pregnancy Genre
Chapter Two
Phenomenologies and Pregnancy
Chapter Three
Narrative Negotiations in Juno, Gestation/Gestación and Stephanie Daley
Chapter Four
Internal Landscapes and Biotourist Narratives in The Milk of Sorrow/La teta asustada, Ain't Them Bodies Saints and Apio verde
Chapter Five
The Recollection-Object, Breaching the Threshold in Up, The Bad Intentions and Birth
Chapter Six
Pregnant Embodiment as mise n'en scène in Arrival and Ixcanul
Conclusion
Filmography
References
Index
Product details
| Published | 15 Jul 2021 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781501358562 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 73 bw illus |
| Series | Thinking Cinema |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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