The 1980s was the age of science fiction, but the movie Aliens and the short story Johnny Mnemonic stands out from the rest, using a variety of techniques, imagery and dialogue to express their main ideas, values and contexts. The concepts of gender, intrusion and loss of self and corporate power and the devaluation of humans are prominent in both of these texts. Gender plays a key role in Aliens, as the protagonist is a woman. We are introduced to three very different kinds of women. Ripley
horror films, women changed roles and begun becoming the heroes and the monsters of that genre. Some women characters like Ripley from Alien are the Final Girl, while other are monsters, like Eli in the film "Let the Right One In", who is quite different from most vampires. First, Ripley is very similar to Clover's Final Girl. The Final Girl is always the first to know that something is wrong, and that something should be done to protect herself and who she is with. In Alien, Ripley refused to let Kane
Amanda Oswald ENG 379 Prof. Shaw 11 November 2014 Bloodchild Gender Experiences Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler is an obvious example of gender binaries and its consequences. Gilbert and Gubar write in their critical essay “No Man’s Land: Volume 1: The War of the Words” about the anxieties that come from this exact sort of writing that comes from Butler. The idea of the man being the bearer of children and ultimately the bearer of great pain while the woman is in control would add to the anxieties
reproductive/mothering functions. For example, in the movie The Fly, Seth Brundle is birthed into a fly, in the sense that he is reproduced and combined with the fly’s traits (just as a baby would between a boy and a girl). Creed uses the word ‘monstrous feminine’ instead of ‘female monster’, claiming that the conception would oppose the idea of having a ‘male monster’. Her thought behind this being that this may begin a conversation on the gender of the monster. When defining the term “Female Monstrosity”
fiction novels. This was initially done because of the little or no knowledge regarding the structure of the universe. But later, it developed because of the power of the human mind to do fantastical or speculative works. Alien Languages and the concept of Language Metamorphosis Alien languages that are spoken by extraterrestrials like Klingon and Huttesse are often a recurrent element in sci-fi literature. There are also the mentions of all humans speaking one single language like Esperanto. The possibility
viewers and passive consumers of meaning. In fact, Giroux (1996) reported that the principles of Disney’s animated movies include issues regarding the social construction of gender, race, class and many other aspects of self and collective identity. Disney images are significant in children’s construction of desires, imaginations, roles, interests, behaviour, and