A beautiful tragedy : witnessing the pregnant body in contemporary Hollywood films.

• Main Author: Ong, Isabel Tze Wei.
• Other Authors: Brian Keith Bergen-Aurand
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media::Broadcasting::Motion pictures and films::Film theory and criticism
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15188
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

"Everyone at school is always grabbing at my belly," says sixteen-year-old Juno MacGuff in Jason Reitman's explosive and critically acclaimed film Juno (2007). The film's central character goes on to describe herself as the "Cautionary Whale", a moniker that both situat...