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Title: | Constructing a New Femininity |
Other Titles: | Popular Film and the Effects of Technological Gender |
Authors: | Misener, Aaron |
Advisor: | Savage, Anne |
Department: | English |
Keywords: | Science Fiction, gynoids, abjection, Simulacra |
Publication Date: | 2017 |
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. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/21054 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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