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1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781501398438
Content:
Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media: From Annihilation to High Life and Beyond places posthumanism and feminist theory into dialogue with contemporary science fiction film and media. This essay collection is intimately invested in the debates around the posthuman and the critical posthumanities within a feminist critical-theoretical framework. In this posthumanist light, science fiction as a genre allows for new imaginings of human-technological relations, while it can also be the site of a critique of human exceptionalism and essentialism. In this way, science fiction affords unique opportunities for the scholarly investigation of the relevance and relative applicability of specific posthumanist themes and questions in a particularly rich and wide-ranging popular cultural field of production. One of the reasons for this suitability is the genre s historically longstanding relationship with the critical investigation of gender, specifically the position and relative empowerment of women. The original analyses presented here pay close attention to audiovisual style (including game mechanics), facilitating the critical interrogation of the issues and questions around posthumanism. Where typically the mention of SF in the posthumanist context calls to mind a whole set of (often clich d) tropes the cyborg, technologically augmented bodies, AI subjectivities, etc. this volume s thirteen chapters analyze specific examples of contemporary SF cinema that engage in meaningful ways with the burgeoning field of critical posthumanism, and that utilize such films to interrogate posthumanist and feminist as well as humanistic ideas
Content:
"Places posthumanism and feminist theory into direct conversation with contemporary science fiction film and media from the 1980s to present"--
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List of Contributors Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Feminist Refractions of the Posthuman Julia A. Empey(University of Cambridge, UK) and Russell J. A. Kilbourn (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) PART ONE: Posthuman Bodies and Identities 1. Indigenous Futurist and Women-Centred Dystopian Film Missy Molloy (Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand) 2. Gender, Sex, and Feminist AI: 13 Theses on Her Sarah Stulz (Independent Scholar, Switzerland) 3. Her: A Posthuman Love Story Zorianna Zurba (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada) 4. Posthuman Mothers and Reproductive Biovalue in Blade Runner: 2049 and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Jerika Sanderson (University of Waterloo, Canada) 5. Desirable and Undesirable Cyborg Bodies in the Mass Effect Video Game Series Sarah Stang (Brock University, Canada) PART TWO: Posthuman Environments and Entanglements 6. Material Entanglements and Posthuman Female Subjectivity in Annihilation Evdokia Stefanopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) 7. Jonathan Glazer s Under the Skin: Female Embodiment and Ecology Meraj Dhir (Harvard University, USA) 8. Living in Colour: Feminist and Posthumanist Ontology in Upstream Color Emily Sanders(Queen's University, Canada) 9. Ascendance to Trans-Corporeality or Assimilation to Whiteness: The Posthuman Imaginaries of Annihilation and Midsommar Olivia Stowell (University of Michigan, USA) PART THREE: Posthumanist Endings and Futures 10. Digital Ecologies: Posthuman Convergences in Abz and Horizon: Zero Dawn Sarah Best (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) 11. From Rogue Planets to Black Holes: Revaluing Death in Melancholia and High Life Julia A. Empey(University of Cambridge, UK) 12. Originary Twoness : Flashbacks and the Materiality of Memory in Annihilation, High Life, and Arrival Russell J. A. Kilbourn (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) 13. Coming to Terms with Our Own Ends: Failed Reproduction and the End of the Hu/man in Claire Denis High Life and Pella K german and Hugo Lija s Aniara Elif Sendur (Rutgers University, USA) and Allison Mackey (Universidad de la Rep blica, Uruguay) References Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501398407
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501398414
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501398421
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501398445
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781501398438
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