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- Title
We'll Teach Them Tricks: Reinstating Normative Hybrid Futures in Alien: Resurrection.
- Authors
Glick, Julia
- Abstract
The article explores the reinstatement of normative hybrid futures in the science fiction fantasy film "Alien: Resurrection." Topics discussed are process of abjection or othering used to divorce the human-alien hybrid clone Ellen Ripley and robot Call from their nonhuman parts, Call as representation artificial intelligence, Ripley as representation of heteropatriarchy and white femininity, and humanization of Ripley to pass her as a normative hybrid adhering to ideological norms.
- Subjects
ALIEN: Resurrection (Film); SCIENCE fiction films; EXTRATERRESTRIAL beings in motion pictures; OTHERING; HUMAN cloning in motion pictures; ARTIFICIAL intelligence in motion pictures; PATRIARCHY in motion pictures; FEMININITY in motion pictures
- Publication
Film Matters, 2018, Vol 9, Issue 1, p101
- ISSN
2042-1869
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism
- DOI
10.1386/fm.9.1.101_1