Alien Woman

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8264-1910-1
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 374 g

Across three decades and four films, Lt. Ellen Ripley's struggle with the fierce and terrible Alien and the powers that desire it traces the arc of women's struggles in America

- A competitively priced paperback edition
- Appealing to science fiction enthusiasts and academics alike

Alien Woman examines the construction of sex and gender in the four science-fiction films comprising the Alien saga (starring Sigourney Weaver). The Alien saga stands alone in presenting an enduring, self-reliant female protagonist, Ripley, who in the first film ends up as the sole survivor of the beleaguered starship Nostromo. Subsequent writers and directors in the 1980’s and 1990’s, left to grapple with this strong female protagonist, re-envision Ripley for different social, political, and cultural imperatives for women. Alien Woman focuses on how these writers and directors have re-written Ripley and how each revision informs our understanding of women in science fiction, and by examining the films' creation and commodification of the female hero, the books illustrates how changing attitudes toward women and the female body help us understand broader societal beliefs and relationships, and provides a useful lens with which to understand woman's place in the late 20th century and early 21st century.

Zielgruppe

Academic/Undergraduate/Postgraduate/Interested
Layman

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Jason

Gallardo-C., Ximena

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Can't Live with Them, Can't Kill Them
Chapter 1: Men, Women, and Alien Baby
Chapter 2: Ripley Gets her Gun: Aliens and the Reagan Era Hero
Chapter 3: "The Bitch Is Back": The Iconoclastic Body in Alien
Chapter 4: "Who Are You?” Alien Resurrection and the Posthuman Subject
Afterword: Alien Woman
Selected Bibliography
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

C. Jason Smith is Assistant Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College-CUNY.

Ximena Gallardo-C. is a native of Chile, she graduated with a Ph.D. in English from Louisiana State University. She lives in New York.