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Queering The Terminator - Sexuality and Cyborg Cinema (Hardcover)
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Queering The Terminator - Sexuality and Cyborg Cinema (Hardcover)
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The Terminator film series is an unlikely site of queer
affiliation. The entire premise revolves around both heterosexual
intercourse and the woman's pregnancy and giving birth. It is
precisely the Terminator's indifference to both that signifies it
as an unimaginably inhuman monstrosity. Indeed, the films'
overarching contention that humanity must be saved, rooted as it is
in a particular story about pregnancy and birth that exclusively
focuses on the heterosexual couple and the family, would appear to
put it at odds with the political stances of contemporary queer
theory. Yet, as this book argues, there is considerable queer
interest in the Terminator mythos. The films provide a framework
for interpreting shifting gender codes and the emergence of queer
sexuality over the period of three decades. Significantly, the
series emerges in the Reagan 80s, which marked a decisive break
with the sexual fluidity of the 70s. As a franchise and on the
individual basis of each film, The Terminator series combines both
radical and reactionary elements. Each film reflects the struggles
over gender and sexuality specific to its release. At the same
time, the series foregrounds the intersection of technology and
gender that has become a definitive aspect of contemporary
experience. A narrative organized around a conservative view of
female sexuality and the family, the Terminator myth is
nevertheless a richly suggestive narrative for queer theory and
gender studies.
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