Date/Time: Thursday 11th November 2021, 3:30-5:00pm

Venue: Zoom

Fertile Visions: The Uterus as a Narrative Space in Cinema from the Americas: Thinking Cinema Anne Carruthers Bloomsbury Academic

The event will be on Zoom on Thursday 11^th November 2021 3.30-5pm (UK)

Please register here: https://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=12130005 After registration, you will be sent an on-line link to the launch

 

Book

Fertile Visions conceptualises the uterus as a narrative space in cinema so that pregnancy can be read beyond a gendered analysis. The book engages across disciplines to consider how scholarship of the foetal scan can contribute to close analysis of the pregnant body in film. The book draws on feminist theories of the body, film-philosophy, phenomenologies and spectatorship to analyse films such as Juno, The Milk of Sorrow, The Bad Intentions, Arrival and Ixcanul. The book presents a unique corpus of films and offers new ways of analysing pregnancy and the pregnant body in cinema from the north and south of the Americas.

 Author

Anne Carruthers is an Associate Lecturer in Film at Newcastle University. Her research interests are narrative and textual analysis, film-philosophy, phenomenologies and international cinema

 Launch

Philippa Page (Lecturer in Hispanic Studies and Deputy Director of the Humanities Research Institute at Newcastle University) will introduce the speakers and chair the launch. Anne Carruthers will talk about the book and how she adapted her doctoral research for a monograph. She will be joined by Sarah Cooper (Professor of Film Studies at Kings College London), one of the editors for Thinking Cinema, who will talk about how the book fits into the series, and Julie Roberts (Senior Research Fellow in the School of Health Sciences at Nottingham University) who will talk about how the book engages with her own research on the foetal scan. The discussion will be opened to participants and focus on how to research and write across disciplines.