American Science Fiction Film - A Bird's Eye View
First wave feminism's interrogation of gender roles as well as military defeat also prompted popular reappraisal of "masculinity." [...]it was no accident that in Alien (1979), Ripley was a fiercely intelligent and independent female protagonist embraced by women not only in the audie...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Cultural intertexts 2015-12, Vol.4, p.96-103 |
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Zusammenfassung: | First wave feminism's interrogation of gender roles as well as military defeat also prompted popular reappraisal of "masculinity." [...]it was no accident that in Alien (1979), Ripley was a fiercely intelligent and independent female protagonist embraced by women not only in the audience but also in the academic community. [...]massive deregulation of greedy corporations and an enhanced military budget led to an increasing national deficit; furthermore, AIDS became epidemic and, connected to homosexuality, was popularly conceived as an "alien" disease. [...]parallel to (and eventually overtaking) the more sanguine science fiction of the decade were films from the "dark side" of the "force." Much more troubling, perhaps, than predatory creatures, alien or terrestrial, like in Predator (1987), and Predator 2 (1990), were more domestic and intimate threats to the human being and the quality of contemporary existence. [...]this third, and darkest, science fiction category traced a unique - and "postmodern" - ambivalence about what was perceived as a degraded future. The fact that special effects technology is no longer linked to rationalism or science, explains to a great extent the slippage of science fiction "proper" into quasi-science fiction/fantasy comic book films or its subsumption by fantasy. [...]in the present period, the science fiction genre is matched by "superhero" films such as X-Men (2000) and X2: X-Men United (2003); Spider-Man (2002) and Spider-Man 2 (2004); and Hulk (2003) - and countered by fantasy films such as the Harry Potter series (2001-11) and the extraordinary Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-03). |
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ISSN: | 2393-0624 2393-1078 |