Fertile Visions
The Uterus as a Narrative Space in Cinema from the Americas
1st Edition
Published on 15. July 2021
240 pages
978-1-5013-5856-2 (ISBN)
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.
Reviews / Votes
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. * Kate Ince, Professor of French and Visual Studies, University of Birmingham, UK *More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
73 bw illus
ISBN-13
978-1-5013-5856-2 (9781501358562)
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02/2023
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Person
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.
Content
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Text
Introduction
Chapter One
Challenging the Pregnancy Genre
Chapter Two
Phenomenologies and Pregnancy
Chapter Three
Narrative Negotiations in Juno, Gestation/Gestacion 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 scene in Arrival and Ixcanul
Conclusion
Filmography
References
Index
Acknowledgements
Notes on Text
Introduction
Chapter One
Challenging the Pregnancy Genre
Chapter Two
Phenomenologies and Pregnancy
Chapter Three
Narrative Negotiations in Juno, Gestation/Gestacion 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 scene in Arrival and Ixcanul
Conclusion
Filmography
References
Index
