RT Book, Section
T1 The Vulnerable Posthuman in Popular Science Fiction Cinema
A1 Carrasco Carrasco, Rocío
AB Following feminist critical posthuman thinking (Braidotti, Vint, Ferrando), this chapter analyses two recent popular science fiction movies portraying female characters that embody the concept of the vulnerable posthuman: Glazer’s Under the Skin (2013) and Sanders’ Ghost in the Shell (2017). In spite of the fact that in these two movies the posthuman (female) characters are depicted as vulnerable beings apparently doomed to privileging and perpetuating the normative idea of the body in terms of gender and race, they still manage to somehow disrupt established configurations of power by offering audiences an unfamiliar experience. Viewers see life through the posthuman perspective thanks to filmic strategies, such as identification or sympathy, enabling us to temporarily refuse normative human ethics and to understand the posthuman subject as it is, with its alien/transhuman body and non-normative actions and desires.
PB Palgrave MacMillan
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/27460
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/27460
LA eng
NO Carrasco-Carrasco, R. (2022). The Vulnerable Posthuman in Popular Science Fiction Cinema. In: Romero-Ruiz, M.I., Cuder-Domínguez, P. (eds) Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance. Thinking Gender in Transnational Times. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95508-3_10
NO The author wishes to acknowledge the funding provided by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Research Project “Bodies in Transit 2”, ref. FFI2017-84555-C2-1-P), the European Regional Development Fund, the Spanish Research Agency and the Regional Ministry of Economy, Knowledge, Enterprise and Universities of Andalusia (Project “Embodiments, Genders and Difference: Cultural Practices of Violence and Discrimination”, ref. 1252965) for the writing of this essay.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 1 jun 2026