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The Perinatal Zeitgeist in Film: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Being Born … Playing Now, in Theaters Near You!

Posted on January 21, 2013 by sillymickel

Projecting the Perinatal Zeitgeist: Everything You’ve Managed to Forget About Being Born Wounded Deer and Centaurs, Chapter Two: Everything You’ve Forgotten About Birth … Projecting the Perinatal Zeitgeist With these elements of birth experience in mind, let us look at … Continue reading →

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Being Born But Were Afraid to Ask: Birthing Into the Media and the Perinatal Zeitgeist of Postmodern Culture

Posted on September 5, 2012 by sillymickel

Apocalypse No! Chapter Eight: The Perinatal Media ET, Phone Mom – Of Aliens, Toothy Vaginas, Satanic Cults, and Explosions: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Being Born With these elements of birth experience in mind, let us look at … Continue reading →

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Cultural Rebirth Aborted, Changing of the Guard Denied, The Elders on Life Support, and the Abomination Fills the Land: America Since Its “Pleasantville” Fifties

Posted on July 21, 2012 by sillymickel

Culture War, Class War Chapter Seven: Cultural Rebirth, Aborted It’s a (Not So) Wonderful Life…for the World War Two Generation Compared to Their Boomer Children War Compelled the Dashing of Dreams for WWII Gen Youth – It’s a Not-So Wonderful … Continue reading →

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Worse Homes and Gardens – Houses, Prisons, Schools, Dungeons, UFOs and Spaceships…and Their Obstetricians: Perinatal Media, Part 5

Posted on March 26, 2012 by sillymickel

Perinatal Media, Part Five: Worse Homes and Gardens – Houses, Prisons, UFOs and Spaceships, Dungeons…and Their Obstetricians House, Cave, Squids Anyway, this portrayal of a house that gobbles up its victims, bizarre as it sounds and as it looked, can … Continue reading →

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All in All, It’s Just Another Face in the Wall – Threatening Enclosures From Which One Wishes to Push Out or Escape: Perinatal Media, Part 4

Posted on March 23, 2012 by sillymickel

Perinatal Media, Part Four: All in All, It’s Just Another Face in the Wall–Enclosing, Threatening Things That One Wishes to Push Out or Escape From Faces Coming Out of the Walls I would like to refer to one final perinatal … Continue reading →

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Becoming Thingified–Modern Birth Tells the Baby, “Welcome to the world, now screw you!”: Perinatal Media, Part 3

Posted on March 22, 2012 by sillymickel

Perinatal Media, Part Three: Welcome to the world, now go to hell!” – A Baby Becomes Thingified Through Modern Birth Treated Like a “Piece of Meat” This practice of ungentle mouth clearing—performed by hurried or insensitive, and uninformed, medical personnel, … Continue reading →

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The Prince Is Always Exiled and Older Males the Last to Wake Up in America’s “Pleasantville

Posted on November 13, 2011 by sillymickel

The Hundredth Monkey: Good Old Boys Are Always the Last to Learn in America’s “Pleasantville” The Sixties Generation Arrived It is significant that the protagonist of change in the movie “Pleasantville” would be a young male, Bud (David). This is … Continue reading →