Hi Emily, Your research and selected sources are great so far. It might be good to take your Laura Mulvey quotes from her book ‘Visual and Other Pleasures’ (available in the Library) as it’s a classic scholarly work and there’s always a chance that online sources might be edited or taken down. Other than that here are some suggestions for further reading – the subject of gender and science fiction has a lot of scholarship attached to it so I’ve tried to keep these specific to the Alien films: Decoding gender in science fiction Chapter 1 Secret Decoder Ring and Chapter 9 Who Farms the Future? (ebook, via Library) Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley (ebook, available via Library) : Fantasy girls gender in the new universe of science fiction and fantasy television Space sirens, scientists and princesses the portrayal of women in science fiction cinema Introduction and Chapter 5. The Astronaut's New Clothes: Naked in Space in Nude on the Moon, Barbarella, and Alien You might want to look at our ejournals collection – this is an example search to give you an idea of what’s available ( ripley alien weaver (‘Deactivating feminism: Sigourney Weaver, James Cameron, and Avatar’ in particular looks good). If you need anything else, you can reach me via aday7@uca.ac.uk or email gatewayrochester@uca.ac.uk to arrange a tutorial.
Short version: I think you need to make Chapter 2 much more specifically (and technically) about Mulvey and Butler - and how their ideas can be twinned and entwined to prove your chapter 3 premise - which is that Ripley represents a more transgressive 'performance of gender' that challenges and critiques 'the male gaze': you need to avoid the 'shopping-list/box-ticking' structure where you just name-check theorists and ideas; instead you need to USE the theoretical frameworks as cutlery by which you then cut up and fork over the Alien franchise...
Hi Emily,
ReplyDeleteYour research and selected sources are great so far. It might be good to take your Laura Mulvey quotes from her book ‘Visual and Other Pleasures’ (available in the Library) as it’s a classic scholarly work and there’s always a chance that online sources might be edited or taken down. Other than that here are some suggestions for further reading – the subject of gender and science fiction has a lot of scholarship attached to it so I’ve tried to keep these specific to the Alien films:
Decoding gender in science fiction Chapter 1 Secret Decoder Ring and Chapter 9 Who Farms the Future? (ebook, via Library)
Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley (ebook, available via Library)
: Fantasy girls gender in the new universe of science fiction and fantasy television
Space sirens, scientists and princesses the portrayal of women in science fiction cinema Introduction and Chapter 5. The Astronaut's New Clothes: Naked in Space in Nude on the Moon, Barbarella, and Alien
You might want to look at our ejournals collection – this is an example search to give you an idea of what’s available (
ripley alien weaver (‘Deactivating feminism: Sigourney Weaver, James Cameron, and Avatar’ in particular looks good).
If you need anything else, you can reach me via aday7@uca.ac.uk or email gatewayrochester@uca.ac.uk to arrange a tutorial.
Thanks,
Andrew
Thank you :)
Deletehttp://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781861892638
ReplyDeleteShort version: I think you need to make Chapter 2 much more specifically (and technically) about Mulvey and Butler - and how their ideas can be twinned and entwined to prove your chapter 3 premise - which is that Ripley represents a more transgressive 'performance of gender' that challenges and critiques 'the male gaze': you need to avoid the 'shopping-list/box-ticking' structure where you just name-check theorists and ideas; instead you need to USE the theoretical frameworks as cutlery by which you then cut up and fork over the Alien franchise...
ReplyDelete