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Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media

From Annihilation to High Life and Beyond
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Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media: From Annihilation to High Life and Beyond places posthumanism and feminist theory into dialogue with contemporary science fiction film and media. This essay collection is intimately invested in the debates around the posthuman and the critical posthumanities within a feminist critical-theoretical framework. In this posthumanist light, science fiction as a genre allows for new imaginings of human-technological relations, while it can also be the site of a critique of human exceptionalism and essentialism. In this way, science fiction affords unique opportunities for the scholarly investigation of the relevance and relative applicability of specific posthumanist themes and questions in a particularly rich and wide-ranging popular cultural field of production. One of the reasons for this suitability is the genre's historically longstanding relationship with the critical investigation of gender, specifically the position and relative empowerment of women. The original analyses presented here pay close attention to audiovisual style (including game mechanics), facilitating the critical interrogation of the issues and questions around posthumanism. Where typically the mention of SF in the posthumanist context calls to mind a whole set of (often clich�d) tropes-the cyborg, technologically augmented bodies, AI subjectivities, etc.-this volume's thirteen chapters analyze specific examples of contemporary SF cinema that engage in meaningful ways with the burgeoning field of critical posthumanism, and that utilize such films to interrogate posthumanist and feminist as well as humanistic ideas.

Author Biography:

Julia A. Empey is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, UK, and currently the book reviews editor at Interconnections: The Journal of Posthumanism. Her research and publication interests focus on contemporary literature and film, feminist and posthumanist theory, and science fiction literature, film, and media. Her other interests include eco-criticism, cosmopolitan studies, and political theory. Russell J. A. Kilbourn is Professor and Chair of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He publishes on memory, film, comparative studies, critical posthumanism, and postsecular cinema. His books include The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino: Commitment to Style (2020), W.G. Sebald's Postsecular Redemption: Catastrophe with Spectator (2018), The Memory Effect: The Remediation of Memory in Literature and Film (co-edited with Eleanor Ty; 2013), and Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representation of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema (2010). Dr. Kilbourn is one of the founders of the Posthumanism Research Network (based at Brock University and Wilfrid Laurier), an associate editor at Interconnections: The Journal of Posthumanism, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. His current project is on posthuman memory.
Release date Australia
March 20th, 2025
Contributors
  • Edited by Julia A. Empey
  • Edited by Russell J. A. Kilbourn
Pages
328
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Dimensions
152x229x25
ISBN-13
9781501398445
Product ID
38760914

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