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Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media
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Description
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 clichéd) 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.
Product details
- Edition:
- 1
- Number of Pages:
- 324
- Release Date:
- 2023-09-21
- Publication Date:
- 2023-09-21
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury 3PL
- Languages:
- Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 1501398407
- ISBN13:
- 9781501398407
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Weight:
- 622 g
- Height:
- 15.7 cm
- Width:
- 23.5 cm
- Thickness:
- 2.2 cm
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