Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down - Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films

Informationen zum Autor Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and the author of Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us To Be Human; Women as Weapons of War: Iraq! Sex and the Media; The Colonization of Psychic Space: Toward a Psychoanalytic Social Theory; Noir Anxiety: Race! Sex! and Maternity in Film Noir; Witnessing: Beyond Recognition; Subjectivity Without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers; Family Values: Subjects Between Nature and Culture; Womanizing Nietzsche: Philosophy's Relation to "the Feminine;" and Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-Bind. Klappentext The image of a heavily pregnant woman! once considered ugly and indecent! is now common to Hollywood film. Kelly Oliver investigates this curious shift and its reflection of changing attitudes toward women's roles in reproduction and the family. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: From Shameful to Sexy--Pregnant Bellies Exploding Onto the Screen1. Academic Feminism Versus Hollywood Feminism: How Modest Maternity Becomes Pregnant Glam 2. MomCom as RomCom: Pregnancy as a Vehicle for Romance3. Accident and Excess: The "Choice" to Have a Baby4. Pregnant Horror: Gestating the Other(s) Within5. "What's the Worst That Can Happen?" Techno-Pregnancies Versus Real PregnanciesConclusion: Twilight Family ValuesNotesFilmographyTexts CitedIndex

Product details

• Authors: Oliver, Kelly Oliver
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.2012
• EAN: 9780231161091
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16109-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Society & culture: general, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Gender studies: women and girls, Film history, theory or criticism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism