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

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

Oliver, Kelly

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Women's HealthFilm StudiesWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0231161085
ISBN13: 9780231161084
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Oct 9 2012
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
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), Quinceañera (2006), Children of Men (2006), Knocked Up (2007), Juno (2007), Baby Mama (2008), Away We Go (2009), Precious (2009), The Back-up Plan (2010), Due Date (2010), and Twilight: Breaking Dawn (2011), Oliver investigates pregnancy as a vehicle for romance, a political issue of choice, a representation of the hosting of others, a prism for fears of miscegenation, and a screen for modern technological anxieties.

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