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Queering The Terminator: Sexuality and Cyborg Cinema by David Greven (English) P
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- ISBN-13
- 9781501348075
- Book Title
- Queering The Terminator
- ISBN
- 9781501348075
- Subject Area
- Social Science, Performing Arts
- Publication Name
- Queering the Terminator : Sexuality and Cyborg Cinema
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Subject
- Film / General, Media Studies, Lgbt Studies / General, Gender Studies, Film / History & Criticism
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 10.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 216 Pages
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The Terminator film series is an unlikely site of queer affiliation. The entire premise revolves around both heterosexual intercourse and the woman's pregnancy and giving birth. It is precisely the Terminator's indifference to both that signifies it as an unimaginably inhuman monstrosity. Indeed, the films' overarching contention that humanity must be saved, rooted as it is in a particular story about pregnancy and birth that exclusively focuses on the heterosexual couple and the family, would appear to put it at odds with the political stances of contemporary queer theory. Yet, as this book argues, there is considerable queer interest in the Terminator mythos. The films provide a framework for interpreting shifting gender codes and the emergence of queer sexuality over the period of three decades. Significantly, the series emerges in the Reagan 80s, which marked a decisive break with the sexual fluidity of the 70s. As a franchise and on the individual basis of each film, The Terminator series combines both radical and reactionary elements. Each film reflects the struggles over gender and sexuality specific to its release. At the same time, the series foregrounds the intersection of technology and gender that has become a definitive aspect of contemporary experience. A narrative organized around a conservative view of female sexuality and the family, the Terminator myth is nevertheless a richly suggestive narrative for queer theory and gender studies.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
1501348078
ISBN-13
9781501348075
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24038373195
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Queering the Terminator : Sexuality and Cyborg Cinema
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Film / General, Media Studies, Lgbt Studies / General, Gender Studies, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
216 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
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Lc Classification Number
Pn1995.9
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This knowledgeable and engaging look at the Terminator saga offers new, sometimes surprising, perspectives. Examining the entire film canon to date and including the TV series, Greven works outward from his own viewing experience, providing a skilful unpicking of the contexts and contradictions of the iconic science fiction series., " Queering the Terminator provides a lively, compelling exploration of the "un-likeliness of desire," showing that mainstream texts do speak to queers even when apparently not doing so. Rereading the Terminator films and television series for their fetishistic emphases and in light of their cultural and historical contexts, David Greven finds male vulnerability, feminist strength, fascist masculinity, pedophilic attraction, and gender-fluid sexuality all on display, alongside the series' more obvious preoccupations with time travel, trauma, the heterosexual couple, and the child. An innovative and welcome addition to the already considerable scholarship about this globally influential media franchise." -- Chris Holmlund, author of Impossible Bodies and Female Trouble, and the editor or co-editor of Between the Sheets, In the Streets: Queer, Lesbian, Gay Documentary, Contemporary American Independent Film, American Film of the 1990s, and The Ultimate Stallone Reader "This knowledgeable and engaging look at the Terminator saga offers new, sometimes surprising, perspectives. Examining the entire film canon to date and including the TV series, Greven works outward from his own viewing experience, providing a skilful unpicking of the contexts and contradictions of the iconic science fiction series." -- Lorna Jowett, Reader in Television Studies, the University of Northampton, UK, Queering the Terminator provides a lively, compelling exploration of the "un-likeliness of desire," showing that mainstream texts do speak to queers even when apparently not doing so. Rereading the Terminator films and television series for their fetishistic emphases and in light of their cultural and historical contexts, David Greven finds male vulnerability, feminist strength, fascist masculinity, pedophilic attraction, and gender-fluid sexuality all on display, alongside the series' more obvious preoccupations with time travel, trauma, the heterosexual couple, and the child. An innovative and welcome addition to the already considerable scholarship about this globally influential media franchise., A fascinating and illuminating analysis of The Terminator films, examining and revealing both the gender politics and shifts in sexuality contemporary with the series production. Greven also demonstrates how these changes shape the subliminal and metaphorical undertones of the films and their plots.
Table of Content
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Desire, but Were Afraid to Ask a Terminator1: "John Connor, It Is Time": Queer Spectatorship and the Primal Scene2: "It's Just Him--And Me": The Terminator 3: Cyborg Masochism and Homo-Fascism: Terminator 2: Judgment Day 4: Falling Behind: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 5: Facing the Father: Terminator Salvation 6: Magnetic Connections: Terminator Genisys Epilogue: Notes on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles BibliographyNotes
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
College Audience
Dewey Decimal
791.4375
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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