Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley - Softcover

Smith, Jason; Gallardo-C., Ximena

 
9780826419101: Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0826419100 ISBN 13: 9780826419101
Verlag: Continuum Inter. Publis., 2006

Inhaltsangabe

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 1980s and 1990s, left to grapple with this strong female protagonist, reenvision 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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

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Verlag
Continuum Inter. Publis.
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0826419100
ISBN 13 
9780826419101
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
254
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