Review /3: Gendering Science Fiction Films by Susan A. George
1950s B-films like The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Attack of the 50-Foot Woman (1958), or Invasion of the…
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Review / 2: Sexual Generations: “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and Gender by Robin Roberts
While deep down an internet rabbit hole one day I came across a catalog listing for a book that sounded…
Beam Me Up, Sociology!
The first episode of Star Trek I remember watching was the Next Generation episode “The Best of Both Worlds, Part…
Cyborgs & Singularity
I know, I’ve been remiss. Even though I’ve been a die-hard anime fan since early high school, it’s taken me until recently to watch Ghost in a Shell, the pivotal Japanese science fiction film released in 1995.
Based on the manga by Masumune Shirow, Ghost in a Shell epitomizes the sheer brilliance of Japanese animation: the illustrations impeccably render a dystopian future in which humans have begun to transcend the limits of the human body by incorporating state of the art technology and cybernetic science into every part of their physicality and cognition.
What I wish I could unlearn from Star Trek TNG / 3: humans, humans everywhere
The TV shows we watch contribute to the shaping of our ideas and notions about the world we live in. On one hand, they can reinforce what we think we know, and the things we don’t realize shape us and our social relations.
In the first post of this series of three, I briefly explored how TNG authors reinforced, most likely unknowingly and unwillingly, certain notions about gender. The representations they gave of many female characters seem to suggest that women are second to men in terms of potential, and that their role is to assist their male boss, husband or father in their endeavors.
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