Queering the Terminator : sexuality and cyborg cinema /
Author / Creator: | Greven, David, author. |
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Imprint: | New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. ©2017 |
Description: | ix, 201 pages ; 25 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11182755 |
Summary: | 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. |
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Physical Description: | ix, 201 pages ; 25 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781501322341 1501322346 |