Courtney Patrick-Weber

The Rhetoric and Medicalization of Pregnancy and Childbirth in Horror Films

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that the medicalization of pregnancy and childbirth traumatizes pregnant people in various ways, using a select group of horror films to portray this trauma on a visceral level. This analysis allows audiences to identify and empathize with pregnant people who are victims of the medicalized pregnancy process.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 102
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9781793602800
• ISBN-10: 1793602808
• Artikelnr.: 58815870

Autorenporträt

Courtney Patrick-Weber is assistant professor of rhetoric and composition at Bay Path University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Chapter 1: Defining Horror as a Rhetorical Genre
Chapter 2: Horror Films and the Medicalization of Pregnancy and Childbirth
Chapter 3: The Void and the Medicalized Rhetoric of Stillbirth
Chapter 4: The Rhetoric of Home Birth, Containment, and Expertise in À
l'intérieur (2007) and Inside (2016)
Chapter 5: Abortion and the Rhetoric of Choice in Black Christmas (1974)
and Red Christmas (2016)
Bibliography and Filmography
About the Author