another book announcement

MODERATOR'S NOTE:  Columbia University Press is announcing the publication
of a new booke by Kelly
Oliver, *Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films.
*

Their press release says:

"From the mid-nineteenth  to the late-twentieth century, pregnancy was
treated as
 a medical  condition to be hidden from view. Even prior to the
medicalization of
 pregnancy, the pregnant body was considered a private affair. Now sexy
 and spectacular,
pregnancy has discovered new meaning and potency under  the Hollywood gaze,
reorienting
our understanding of conception, sexual  attraction, birth, motherhood, and
the
making of family. 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), exploring 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."

More information is available on their website, and they add that customers
the UK,
Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and South Africa should
contact
[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]