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Posts Tagged ‘Knocked Up’

Unexpected Expecting: A Structural Analysis of 2007’s Unplanned Pregnancy Films

By Jandy • Mar 29th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Film

In 2007, no fewer than four films dealing with unplanned pregnancy were released: Knocked Up, Waitress, Juno, and 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. Would a structural analysis of these films reveal a similarity between the films due to their subjects that transcends other generic considerations, or would the pregnancy plot turn out to be subordinate to the intersecting genres and national origins?


Knocked Up

By Jandy • Oct 23rd, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

I wanted to like this. I loved the trailers. I love Katharine Heigl. It got great reviews from most quarters. Maybe my expectations were overly inflated, or perhaps I’m simply not the right demographic for the film. Anyway, it wasn’t so much that the humor offended me as that I simply didn’t find most of [...]