Victoria Sturtevant

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Media Studies Faculty. Author of It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy. Always up to talk comedy, gender, popular media, and reproductive politics. https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477330449/

Forum Readings and Conversations flyer Featuring Dr. Victoria Sturtevant discussing her book It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy in conversation with Dr. Kimberly Marshall, faculty director of OU Arts and Humanities Forum. Thursday, May 1, 7pm Full Circle Bookstore in OKC.
A still frame from the film Fools Rush In. Salma Hayek's character is in labor, so she is horizontal in the frame with just her head showing. Matthew Perry, playing her estranged husband, is upright in the center of the frame, making a comic sympathy face that mimics her expression of labor pain.
A still frame from the sitcom Maude showing two gray-haired ladies on a couch. Maude (Bea Arthur) looks troubled, while Vivian (Rue McClanahan) laughs awkwardly.
A still frame of Marlon Brando in the very famous movie “On the Waterfront.”
A still from the movie Bachelor Mother, with Ginger Rogers and David Niven. Their two characters are dressed in formalwear, with Niven in a party hat.
A front page of the tabloid Daily News from May 20, 1992. Headline reads, "Quayle to Murphy Brown: You Tramp!" Subtitle reads, "Veep: TV's unwed mom symbol of U.S. woes."
A still from I LOVE LUCY showing Ethel (Vivian Vance) and Lucy (Lucille Ball) in male drag, wearing old-fashioned suits and hats. They are disguised as reporters to crash Ricky's "daddy shower" at the men's club.
A screen capture showing a positive review of the book "It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy" by Victoria Sturtevant.
A black and white cartoon image of a stork standing on the roof of a house with the windows boarded up and the chimney covered with a bound cloth. The stork has put its baby bundle down and is looking at a sign that says "Detour."
A 12 pack of Shirley Temple flavored 7-up soda.
An email notification with the subject line "New from Victoria Sturtevant" advertising the new book "It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy." Copy says, "We thought you'd like to know about a new book by an author you follow."
A poster for the 1967 film Doctor, You've Got to be Kidding! starring Sandra Dee and George Hamilton. An image at the bottom shows four men falling backward in shock next to the tagline "It's the funniest who done it!"
Five girls dressed in identical "Betty doll" costumes, with identical padded baby bumps, plus one teenager dressed as Richard Nixon, march in formation to the entrance of a Food Valley grocery store.
Actor Bruce Willis wears a diaper and stands inside a clear inflated structure representing a uterus. A dapper man in a grey suit stands outside the uterus.
A still image of comedian Sandra Bernhard standing at a microphone wearing a sheer mesh dress. She is six months pregnant.
A poster advertising the movie "Rabbit Test." Actor Billy Crystal wears a padded "baby bump" next to the dialogue text, "Where do you buy maternity jockey shorts?" Comedian Joan Rivers wears a t-shirt saying "Director Person" and points at Crystal's belly.
A still from the movie Away We Go. Actress Catherine O'Hara has her ear pressed to the pregnant belly of actress Maya Rudolph.
A doll-like fetus from the movie Look Who's Talking Too. Puppet fetus has an umbilical cord and placenta and is located in a cloud-like pink environment representing the womb.
A well-dressed woman in an elevator laughs joyfully in this screen capture from the 1963 movie, The Thrill of It All. The men around her laugh along with her.
A screen capture from the movie She Hate Me showing animated sperm traveling through a fallopian tube. Each sperm has actor Anthonie Mackie's face superimposed on it.