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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Awarded a PhD in Film Studies from Newcastle University, UK in 2017, Anne Carruthers has an MA in International Film: History, Theory and Practice and an MA in Creative Writing. She is a freelance script reader and lectures in film studies. Her research interests lie in phenomenologies, narrative, and close textual analysis. Vorwort Fertile Visions is an un-gendered reconceptualisation of pregnancy and the female reproductive body in contemporary American cinema. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes 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 FilmographyReferencesIndex...
