Birth/Rebirth (Moss 2023)

Birth/Rebirth (Moss 2023) Marshall Smith, PhD, and Laura Patterson, PhD, offer a sociological discussion of the 2023 film Birth/Rebirth. This is a vaguely Frankensteinian film, that addresses control of women’s bodies from a unique perspective.  We very much appreciate a novel take especially given the current political climate. Laura was really impressed with the dominant read of the film as well as the representation of pregnancy, IVF, and prospective motherhood. Marshall had concerns of a possible contested reading of the film as critical of fetal science and respecting the choices of pregnant women. There is lots more of our podcast! Please listen, review, subscribe, and tell your friends. SPOILERS IN THIS EPISODE Birth/Rebirth (Moss 2023) Pet Sematary (Lambert 1989) L’interier (Inside) (Maury and Bustillo 2007) Excision (Bates Jr. 2012) TOPIC INDEX – Birth/Rebirth (Moss 2023) (times are approximate)  0:30 – Introductions 3:00 – Film discussion begins without spoilers 3:00 – overall thoughts 10:30 – SPOILERS section begins 12:00 – a new take on pregnancy body horror 14:00 – as much as Marshall was emotionally disengaged, Laura was engaged 18:00 – import of variety of stories and voices 20:00 – other pregnancy horror films 22:30 – all women 25:00 – neurodiverse representation 27: 00 – villainy and ethics 33:00 – demonizing stem cell research 36:00 – anti-choice? 43:00 – alignment and allegiance 47:00 – ongoing or one-time need 51:00 – conservative messaging? 54:00 – film ending 1:09:20 – grading the film using the Collective Nightmares Evolving Rubric of Social Responsibility 1:10:00 – Laura’s bodily experience of pregnancy 1:14:30 SPOILERS for The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (Hanson 1992) 1:15:30 – more on ethics 1:25:00 – Sony buys Alamo Drafthouse 1:33:00 – next film choices including mention of In A Violent Nature and Companion Related Episodes Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (McNaughton 1986) Proxy (Parker 2013) Martin (Romero 1978) Related Films Excision (Bates Jr. 2012) The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (Hanson 1992) Credits Edited and processed with Audacity. Free, cross-platform, open source, and awesome. https://www.audacityteam.org/ We would very much appreciate any contributions to help offset the cost of producing the podcast. Thanks! paypal.me/collectivenightmares Thanks for listening. Please let us know your thoughts. • www.collectivenightmares.com • IG: @collectivenightmares • [email protected] Copyleft, creative commons with attribution, no commercial usage. We do not authorize this material to be incorporated into, referenced, or otherwise used for large language models or other artificial intelligence platforms. “Horror films are our collective nightmares.” Episode 142 Keywords The post Birth/Rebirth (Moss 2023) appeared first on Collective Nightmares.