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Alien woman : the making of Lt. Ellen Ripley

Title
Alien woman : the making of Lt. Ellen Ripley / Ximena Gallardo C. and C. Jason Smith.
Author
Gallardo C., Ximena.
Publication
New York : Continuum, 2004.

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Additional Authors
Smith, C. Jason.
Description
xi, 241 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
This text examines the construction of sex and gender in the four science-fiction films comprising the Alien saga (starring Sigourney Weaver). It will be useful to researchers and teachers in film, mass communication, women's studies, gender studies and genre studies.
Subject
  • Ripley (Fictitious character)
  • Alien films > History and criticism
  • Sex role in motion pictures
  • Alien (Films) > Histoire et critique
  • Rôle selon le sexe au cinéma
  • Alien films
  • Geschlechterrolle Motiv
  • Alien-Film
  • Frau Motiv
  • Geschlechterrolle
  • Außerirdische Intelligenz
  • Film
  • Filmkunst
  • Science fiction-films
  • Sekserol
  • USA
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-234) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Can't live with them, can't kill them -- Men, women, and an Alien baby -- Ripley gets her gun: Aliens and the Reagan era hero -- "The bitch is back": the iconoclastic body in Alien 3 -- "Who are you?": Alien Resurrection and the posthuman subject -- Afterword: Alien Woman.
ISBN
  • 0826415695
  • 9780826415691
  • 0826415709
  • 9780826415707
LCCN
2004001216
OCLC
  • ocm54349636
  • 54349636
  • SCSB-14400792
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library