Gender and parenting in the worlds of Alien and Blade Runner : a feminist analysis
Gender and Parenting in the Worlds of Alien and Blade Runner is a comparative, gendered analysis study of Ridley Scott's contributions to the genre of science fiction and horror cinema. Observing that while Ridley Scott's science fiction classics Blade Runner and Alien each feature future...
Saved in:
| Main Author | |
|---|---|
| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2021.
|
| Series | Emerald studies in popular culture and gender
|
| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781839829420 |
| DOI | 10.1108/9781839829406 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (144 pages). |
Cover
| LEADER | 00000nam a2200000Ii 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | em-9781839829420 | ||
| 003 | UtOrBLW | ||
| 005 | 20210819102157.0 | ||
| 006 | m o d | ||
| 007 | cr ||||||||||| | ||
| 008 | 210831t20212021enk ob 001 0 eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 9781839829420 |q (e-book) | ||
| 040 | |a UtOrBLW |b eng |e rda |c UtOrBLW | ||
| 080 | |a 791.4 | ||
| 082 | 0 | 4 | |a 791.43653 |2 23 |
| 100 | 1 | |a DiGioia, Amanda, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Gender and parenting in the worlds of Alien and Blade Runner : |b a feminist analysis / |c Amanda DiGioia (University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UK). |
| 264 | 1 | |a Bingley, U.K. : |b Emerald Publishing Limited, |c 2021. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2021 | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (144 pages). | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 490 | 0 | |a Emerald studies in popular culture and gender | |
| 500 | |a Includes index. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Chapter 1. Gender, childbirth, and parenting in science fiction films and gender in horror films -- Chapter 2. More human than human: Blade Runner 2049 -- Chapter 3. "We were so wrong": the perversion of male creation. Motherhood, fatherhood and birth in recent incarnations of the Alien series -- Chapter 4. "You've never seen a miracle": birth and parenthood in Blade Runner 2049 -- Chapter 5. "I can't lie to you about your chances, but ... you have my sympathies" -- Chapter 6. Conclusion. | |
| 520 | |a Gender and Parenting in the Worlds of Alien and Blade Runner is a comparative, gendered analysis study of Ridley Scott's contributions to the genre of science fiction and horror cinema. Observing that while Ridley Scott's science fiction classics Blade Runner and Alien each feature future worlds in which space travel and off-earth colonies are commonplace, the author showcases how patriarchal and gendered expectations regarding women, usually associated with the past, still run rampant. Amanda DiGioia argues in this book that Scott has shifted from focusing on the future, and what humanity may be able to obtain from it, to a focus on facing mortality: what occurs after death and the futility of human existence. The opening chapter provides the necessary theoretical framework and background for the rest of the book, defining the Blade Runner films as science fiction works with elements of horror, from the corporeal to the existential, and the Alien universe as a collection of horror texts. The following chapters go on to discuss the idea of gender, across the works, ruminating on how humanity is in some instances nothing but a social construct that reinforces patriarchal myths about gender and power. | ||
| 588 | 0 | |a Print version record. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Sex role in motion pictures. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Alien films. | |
| 630 | 0 | 0 | |a Blade runner (Motion picture) |
| 630 | 0 | 0 | |a Blade runner 2049 (Motion picture) |
| 650 | 0 | |a Parent and child in motion pictures. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Feminism and motion pictures. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a elektronické knihy |7 fd186907 |2 czenas | |
| 655 | 9 | |a electronic books |2 eczenas | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |z 9781839829413 |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i PDF version: |z 9781839829406 |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://proxy.k.utb.cz/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1108/9781839829406 |