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Contested Pictures of Persuasion: American Images of Foetuses in Swedish Antiabortion Campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s
This chapter explores the circulation, use and public discussion of images of human foetuses travelling from the US to Sweden in the period before...
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Eat the Children!
In the Hong Kong horror film Dumplings (Jiaozi, 餃子 2004), directed by independent filmmaker Fruit Chan and adapted from a novella of the same title...
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Which Story to Believe? Mediating Trauma in Digital 3-D Cinema
In 3-D cinema, the screen as a boundary becomes highly volatile, or “porous” to use Miriam Ross’ terminology, due to images traversing the screen and...
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Case Study 3: The Despair of Petrichor (2016): Choreographer, Analyst, Audience, Dancer
Through this last case study the book turns to my own work, allowing me both to relate findings to a choreographer’s perspective, to see the limits...
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Performing Reproduction in an Age of Overproduction: Environmental Installations by Ai Hasegawa
The deepening environmental crises we face today are proving to be unequally distributed among humankind. Environmental catastrophes and the adverse...
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Tilted Views and C Sailo: A Study of Satire in Contemporary Indie Comics
For John Berger, the act of seeing is locative. It provides a site for the viewer to base herself upon. In this chapter titled ‘Tilted Views: A Study...
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Disrupting the Everyday City Through Art
Chapters 5 – 7 addressed three major themes to...
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From Bodies to Worlding
Body fluidity and corporeal reaching towards as described in the previous chapter hint at a broader process of transformation that gives rise to new...
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Home: Interiority and Intimacy
This chapter explores experiences and relations of interiority, intimacy and connection encountered within domestic dwelling spaces. Through...
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Guilty as Charged: Feminist Film Theory and the Early Modern Imagination
The patriarchal unconscious is put “on trial” in this chapter through its resemblance to early modern ideas of the imagination. In the early modern...
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Freaks and the Victorian Imagination
This chapter explores the interrelationships between freakery and the Gothic. While the ‘monster’ has figured predominantly in critical readings, the...
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The Animal Body Remade: Bones, Feathers, Furs and Fairies
This chapter examines the work of four artists who use the animal body and/or organic matter to produce sculptural work. Beginning with a brief...
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Aftermath (5 Months)
In this chapter we explore artworks that have been made during the early days after the birth of a baby, when mother and child are coming to know one...
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“When We Do Not See Something, We Imagine It to Be Much Worse”
The French documentary Histoires d’A (Histories of Abortion 1973) successfully led to increased public exposure and discussion of abortion in the...
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Introduction: Family in Crisis—The Rise of Surrogacy and Its Impact on Popular Culture
This introductory chapter explores the importance of TV on popular culture in relation to evolving media platforms, consumer practices and its...
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The Maternal Imagination of Film and Film Theory
The historic idea that the pregnant woman’s imagination could manipulate foetal appearance intersects with the European and American witch-hunts and...
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Contextualizing the Develo** Self in Helen Chadwick’s Ego Geometria Sum
This chapter discusses Helen Chadwick’s autobiographical work Ego Geometria Sum (1982–84) in relation to her reading of Arthur Koestler’s books The...
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I Want a Baby! Baby Hunger and the Desire for a Genetic Child
This chapter examines the desire for a genetic child through baby hunger that drives the narratives of American reality TV show Giuliana & Bill and...
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Vie de Paula Modersohn-Becker by Marie Darrieussecq: Between Portrait and Self-Portrait
In her reconstruction of the life of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, the French novelist Marie Darrieussecq remains close to...
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‘You’re Soaking in It’: The Socio-Cultural Bath
In this chapter, Alexandrowicz summons the work of Pierre Bourdieu in order to analyse the social matrix within which a complex set of practices...