Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media

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.

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface

Introduction—Feminist Refractions of the Posthuman
Julia A. Empey(University of Cambridge, UK) and Russell J. A. Kilbourn (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)

PART ONE: Posthuman Bodies and Identities
1. Indigenous Futurist and Women-Centred Dystopian Film
Missy Molloy (Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand)
2. Gender, Sex, and Feminist AI: 13 Theses on Her
Sarah Stulz (Independent Scholar, Switzerland)
3. Her: A Posthuman Love Story
Zorianna Zurba (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)
4. Posthuman Mothers and Reproductive Biovalue in Blade Runner: 2049 and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Jerika Sanderson (University of Waterloo, Canada)
5. Desirable and Undesirable Cyborg Bodies in the Mass Effect Video Game Series
Sarah Stang (Brock University, Canada)

PART TWO: Posthuman Environments and Entanglements
6. Material Entanglements and Posthuman Female Subjectivity in Annihilation
Evdokia Stefanopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
7. Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin: Female Embodiment and Ecology
Meraj Dhir (Harvard University, USA)
8. Living in Colour: Feminist and Posthumanist Ontology in Upstream Color
Emily Sanders(Queen's University, Canada)
9. Ascendance to Trans-Corporeality or Assimilation to Whiteness: The Posthuman Imaginaries of Annihilation and Midsommar
Olivia Stowell (University of Michigan, USA)

PART THREE: Posthumanist Endings and Futures
10. Digital Ecologies: Posthuman Convergences in Abzû and Horizon: Zero Dawn
Sarah Best (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
11. From Rogue Planets to Black Holes: Revaluing Death in Melancholia and High Life
Julia A. Empey(University of Cambridge, UK)
12. ‘Originary Twoness’: Flashbacks and the Materiality of Memory in Annihilation, High Life, and Arrival
Russell J. A. Kilbourn (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
13. Coming to Terms with Our Own Ends: Failed Reproduction and the End of the Hu/man in Claire Denis’ High Life and Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lija’s Aniara
Elif Sendur (Rutgers University, USA) and Allison Mackey (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)

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