The Visceral Horror of Parenthood: A Deep Dive into Hanna Bergholm’s ‘Nightborn’
In the two decades since the release of the Judd Apatow-produced Knocked Up popularized the unflinching, full-frontal depiction of childbirth in mainstream cinema, audiences have grown accustomed to the "crowning" shot as a shorthand for the…
The Monstrous Labor of Motherhood: An Analysis of Hanna Bergholm’s Nightborn
Since the release of Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up some twenty years ago, the cinematic depiction of childbirth has undergone a radical, if often nauseating, transformation. What was once a sanitized, soft-focus trope in Hollywood has shifted toward the…