Join us as we breakdown the isolated families of David Cronenberg’s The Brood. From family structures to the legalese of it all, we investigate why and how we cling to each other.
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REQUIRED READING
The Brood. Dir. David Cronenberg, 1979.
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Cronenberg on Cronenberg. A collection of interviews with the man himself on the making and meaning of his films.
The Evolution of Pregnancy Portraits From Tudor England to Beyonce. A history of the pregnant body as spectacle.
The Brood: Separation Trials. A Criterion retrospective by Carrie Rickey.
Self-Labeling And Women’s Mental Health: Postpartum Illness And The Reconstruction Of Motherhood – a look at the history of puerperal insanity.
Oliver Reed and Orson Welles on Merv Griffin. From Andrea’s secret stash of bookmarked videos.
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The hetero-nuclear family predates capitalism, and is of course also found in communist societies even if some early communists talked about ending it.