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Masculinity in contemporary science fiction cinema : cyborgs, troopers and other men of the future /
If science fiction stages the battle between humans and non-humans, whether alien or machine, who is elected to fight for us? In the classics of science fiction cinema, humanity is nearly always represented by a male, and until recently, a white male. Spanning landmark American films from "Blad...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
I.B. Tauris,
2018.
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| Colección: | Library of gender and popular culture ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-title; Endorsement; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Vulnerable Hypermasculinity; Reclaiming Hegemony Through Hypermasculinity; Displaying the male body; Defying death; White hegemony; Vulnerability as a Path to Victimhood; A structuring tension between invulnerability and vulnerability; Robocop as victim; Questioning Hypermasculinity; Hybridity and instability; A critical perspective?; 2 Dystopia and Class War; Dystopian Societies; Urban decay; Alien invasion.
- Marginalised heroes; Worlds Devoid of Humanity; Technophobia; Inhuman elites; Defusing Class Warfare; Showing class conflict; A progressive subtext?; Using science fiction to deflect class resentment; 3 Sidelining Women; Women as Sidekicks; Women with agency; Marginalised onlookers; The Fleeting Rise of Action Heroines; Equality in hypermasculinity?; The importance of being female; Back to the Sidelines; Women of power as antagonists; Supporting scientists; 4 'White Folks Ain't Planning for Us to be Here'; Demons with a Purpose; Blacks as alien bodies; Dysfunctional white societies.
- Black violence as an assertion of power; Integrated Members of Multiracial Teams; Promoting virile masculinity through interracial alliance; The primacy of whiteness?; Will Smith, Lone Black Hero; A critique of whiteness; Black humanity: an alternative vision of masculinity?; 5 Redefining Masculinity in Times of 'Crisis'; Away from Hypermasculinity; Passive heroes; The dangers of hegemonic masculinity; Seeking refuge with strong women; The Turn to Fatherhood; Nurturing protectors; Legitimating hegemonic masculinity; Failing at patriarchal reproduction.
- Afterword The Gender Politics of Science Fiction Blockbusters; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1: Vulnerable Hypermasculinity; Chapter 2: Dystopia and Class War; Chapter 3: Sidelining Women; Chapter 4: 'White Folks Ain't Planning for Us to be Here'; Chapter 5: Redefining Masculinity in Times of 'Crisis'; Afterword: The Gender Politics of Science Fiction Blockbusters; Bibliography; Filmography The primary corpus includes the actors mentioned in the book, the studio distributor and the US lifetime ... ; Primary corpus; Secondary corpus; Index.