Tag: Kelly Oliver

April 7, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Virginia Woolf, François Laruelle, German Cinema, and more!

Our weekly listing of new titles.

October 18, 2012

From Shameful to Sexy — Kelly Oliver on Changing Representations of Pregnancy

“Pregnancy and pregnant bodies have gone from shameful and hidden to sexy and spectacular”—Kelly Oliver In From Shameful to Sexy, the introduction to Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films , Kelly Oliver examines the...

October 17, 2012

MomCom as RomCom

“Today, Hollywood need not bother with marriage. Rather, sex, baby, love—often in that order—are the contemporary triple threat.”—Kelly Oliver In her book Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films, Kelly Oliver discusses the genre of...

October 16, 2012

Kelly Oliver — Bella’s Baby: Extreme Home Birth

With our featured book this week being Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films we are re-posting Kelly Oliver’s essay originally published for mother’s day. Twilight: Breaking Dawn continues a long line of horror films...

October 15, 2012

Book Giveaway! "Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down," by Kelly Oliver

“This is a wonderful book…. It examines new possibilities, not all positive, in an age of techno-pregnancy and the erotic glorification of “baby bumps”, “momshells” and pregnant celebrities. A highly serious yet entertaining account of the relationship between film and...

September 18, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Pregnancy on Film, The Homoerotic Photograph, and More

Our weekly list of new books: Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films Kelly Oliver The Homoerotic Photograph: Male Images from Durieu/Delacroix to Mapplethorpe (Now available in paper) Allen Ellenzweig Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and...

May 10, 2012

Kelly Oliver — Bella's Baby: Extreme Home Birth

Kelly Oliver looks at the portrayal of motherhood in Twilight: Breaking Dawn.