Feminist posthumanism in contemporary science fiction film and media from Annihilation to High life and beyond / edited by Julia A. Empey and Russell J.A. Kilbourn.

Other author Empey, Julia A.
Other author Kilbourn, Russell J. A. (Russell James Angus), 1964-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Descriptionx, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents Indigenous futurist and women-centered dystopian film / Missy Molloy -- Gender, sex, and feminist AI : thirteen theses on her / Sarah Stulz -- Her : a posthuman love story / Zorianna Zurba -- Posthuman mothers and reproductive biovalue in Blade Runner : 2049 and Jurassic World : Fallen Kingdom / Jerika Sanderson -- Desirable and undesirable cyborg bodies in the Mass Effect video game trilogy / Sarah Stang -- Material entanglements and posthuman female subjectivity in Annihilation / Evdokia Stefanopoulou -- Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin : female embodiment and ecology / Meraj Dhir -- Living in color : feminist and posthuman ontology in Upstream Color / Emily Sanders -- Ascendance to trans-corporeality or assimilation to whiteness : the posthuman imaginaries of annihilation and midsommar / Olivia Stowell -- Digital game ecologies : posthuman convergences in Abzû and Horizon : zero dawn / Sarah Best -- From rogue planets to balck holes : revaluing death in Melancholia and High Life / Julia A. Empey -- "Originary Twoness" : flashbacks and the materiality of memory in Annihilation, High Life, and Arrival / Russell J.A. Kilbourn -- Coming to terms with our own ends : failed reproduction and the end of the hu/man in Clair Denis' High Life and Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lija's Aniara / Allison Mackey and Elif Sendur.
Abstract "Places posthumanism and feminist theory into direct conversation with contemporary science fiction film and media from the 1980s to present"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 282-297) and index.
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