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Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films
Julia Kristeva
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Description for Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films
Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; HPCF7; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
No longer is pregnancy a repulsive or shameful condition in Hollywood films, but an attractive attribute, often enhancing the romantic or comedic storyline of a female character. Kelly Oliver investigates this curious shift and its reflection of changing attitudes toward women's roles in reproduction and the family. Not all representations signify progress. Oliver finds that in many pregnancy films, our anxieties over modern reproductive practices and technologies are made manifest, and in some cases perpetuate conventions curtailing women's freedom. Reading such films as Where the Heart Is (2000), Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), Palindromes (2004), Saved! (2004), Quinceanera (2006), ... Read more
No longer is pregnancy a repulsive or shameful condition in Hollywood films, but an attractive attribute, often enhancing the romantic or comedic storyline of a female character. Kelly Oliver investigates this curious shift and its reflection of changing attitudes toward women's roles in reproduction and the family. Not all representations signify progress. Oliver finds that in many pregnancy films, our anxieties over modern reproductive practices and technologies are made manifest, and in some cases perpetuate conventions curtailing women's freedom. Reading such films as Where the Heart Is (2000), Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), Palindromes (2004), Saved! (2004), Quinceanera (2006), ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231161084
SKU
V9780231161084
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About Julia Kristeva
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: ... Read more
Reviews for Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films
A wonderful, insightful, riveting, and entertaining romp.
Kalpana Rahita Seshadri, Boston College Clearly written...this book could serve...as a core text in a course on women in film. Choice Oliver's convincing conclusion is that in Hollywood films pregnant women may have become objects of desire, but they are not allowed to become desiring subjects...
Fran Bigman Times Literary Supplement ... Read more
Kalpana Rahita Seshadri, Boston College Clearly written...this book could serve...as a core text in a course on women in film. Choice Oliver's convincing conclusion is that in Hollywood films pregnant women may have become objects of desire, but they are not allowed to become desiring subjects...
Fran Bigman Times Literary Supplement ... Read more