Gender and Environment in Science Fiction (Ecocritical Theory and Practice) - Softcover

TIDWELL, CHRISTY

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1498580599 ISBN 13: 9781498580595

Verlag: Lexington, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Gender and Environment in Science Fiction focuses on the variety of ways that gender and "nature" interact in science fiction films and fictions, exploring questions of different realities and posing new ones. Science fiction asks questions to propose other ways of living; it asks what if, and that question is the basis for alternative narratives of ourselves and the world we are a part of. What if humans could terraform planets? What if we could create human-nonhuman hybrids? What if artificial intelligence gains consciousness? What if we could realize kinship with other species through heightened empathy or traumatic experiences? What if we imagine a world without oil? The texts analyzed in this book ask these questions and others, exploring how humans and nonhumans are connected; how nonhuman biologies can offer diverse ways to think about human sex, gender, and sexual orientation; and how interpretive strategies can subvert the messages of older films and written texts.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Bridgitte Barclay is associate professor of English and co-director of the gender studies minor at Aurora University.

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he teaches courses on international horror film. He also serves on the editorial board of New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film (Intellect), Director of the horror cinema research group "Grite," and Director of the Spanish horror studies series "Terror: Estudios Críticos" (Universidad de Cádiz).

Christy Tidwell is associate professor of English and humanities at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lexington
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1498580599
• ISBN 13: 9781498580595
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 238
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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