Fertile Visions

The Uterus as a Narrative Space in Cinema from the Americas

AvAnne Carruthers

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Engelska, 2021

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-07-15
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781501358562
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)
Serie:Thinking Cinema

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Film inom Kultur
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

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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.

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This is an intellectually muscular approach to pregnancy (deliberately re-presented as “the uterus”), and a highly original conception of the uterus as narrative space. Carruthers deploys phenomenology to focus on the uterus as distinct from motherhood/maternity, and pursues her topic via wide-ranging and impressive research in all the areas of film studies touched upon.

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IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes on TextIntroductionChapter OneChallenging the Pregnancy GenreChapter TwoPhenomenologies and PregnancyChapter ThreeNarrative Negotiations in Juno, Gestation/Gestación and Stephanie DaleyChapter FourInternal Landscapes and Biotourist Narratives in The Milk of Sorrow/La teta asustada, Ain't Them Bodies Saints and Apio verdeChapter FiveThe Recollection-Object, Breaching the Threshold in Up, The Bad Intentions and BirthChapter SixPregnant Embodiment as mise n'en scène in Arrival and IxcanulConclusionFilmographyReferencesIndex