Fertile Visions

The Uterus as a Narrative Space in Cinema from the Americas

Dr. Anne Carruthers (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-5857-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Anne Carruthers is an Associate Lecturer at Newcastle University, UK, where she teaches film studies. She is an experienced script reader, and her research interests lie in phenomenologies, narrative, and close textual analysis.

Illustrations
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

Erscheinungsdatum	13.08.2021
Reihe/Serie	Thinking Cinema
Zusatzinfo	73 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	494 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-5013-5857-X / 150135857X
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-5857-9 / 9781501358579
Zustand	Neuware