Queering The Terminator - David Greven

Queering The Terminator

Sexuality and Cyborg Cinema

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
216 Seiten
2018
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-4807-5 (ISBN)
42,35 inkl. MwSt
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.

David Greven is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, USA, and the author of many books, including Psycho-Sexual: Male Desire in Hitchcock, De Palma, Scorsese, and Friedkin and Manhood in Hollywood from Bush to Bush.

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Desire, but Were Afraid to Ask a Terminator
1: “John Connor, It Is Time”: Queer Spectatorship and the Primal Scene
2: “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
Bibliography
Notes

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 19 bw illus
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 290 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-5013-4807-8 / 1501348078
ISBN-13 978-1-5013-4807-5 / 9781501348075
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