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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.advisor | Savage, Anne | - |
dc.contributor.author | Misener, Aaron | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-02-03T21:03:12Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-02-03T21:03:12Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/21054 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This project applies critical media and gender theories to the relatively unexplored social space where technology and subjectivity meet. Taking popular film as a form of public pedagogy, the project implicates unquestioned structures of patriarchal control in shaping the development and depiction of robotic bodies. The project was spurred from a decline in critical discourse surrounding technology’s potential to upset binaried gender constructions, and the increasingly simplified depictions of female-shaped robots (gynoids) as proxies for actual women. By critically engaging assumptions of gender when applied to technology, the project recontextualizes fundamental theories in contemporary popular film. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Science Fiction, gynoids, abjection, Simulacra | en_US |
dc.title | Constructing a New Femininity | en_US |
dc.title.alternative | Popular Film and the Effects of Technological Gender | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | English | en_US |
dc.description.degreetype | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Arts (MA) | en_US |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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M.A Thesis- Aaron Misener- 0759660- 2017.pdf | 622.29 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
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