Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface

Introduction-Feminist Refractions of the Posthuman
Julia A. Empey(University of Cambridge, UK) and Russell J. A. Kilbourn (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)

PART ONE: Posthuman Bodies and Identities
1. Indigenous Futurist and Women-Centred Dystopian Film
Missy Molloy (Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand)
2. Gender, Sex, and Feminist AI: 13 Theses on Her
Sarah Stulz (Independent Scholar, Switzerland)
3. Her: A Posthuman Love Story
Zorianna Zurba (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)
4. Posthuman Mothers and Reproductive Biovalue in Blade Runner: 2049 and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Jerika Sanderson (University of Waterloo, Canada)
5. Desirable and Undesirable Cyborg Bodies in the Mass Effect Video Game Series
Sarah Stang (Brock University, Canada)

PART TWO: Posthuman Environments and Entanglements
6. Material Entanglements and Posthuman Female Subjectivity in Annihilation
Evdokia Stefanopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
7. Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin: Female Embodiment and Ecology
Meraj Dhir (Harvard University, USA)
8. Living in Colour: Feminist and Posthumanist Ontology in Upstream Color
Emily Sanders(Queen's University, Canada)
9. Ascendance to Trans-Corporeality or Assimilation to Whiteness: The Posthuman Imaginaries of Annihilation and Midsommar
Olivia Stowell (University of Michigan, USA)

PART THREE: Posthumanist Endings and Futures
10. Digital Ecologies: Posthuman Convergences in Abzu and Horizon: Zero Dawn
Sarah Best (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
11. From Rogue Planets to Black Holes: Revaluing Death in Melancholia and High Life
Julia A. Empey(University of Cambridge, UK)
12. 'Originary Twoness': Flashbacks and the Materiality of Memory in Annihilation, High Life, and Arrival
Russell J. A. Kilbourn (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
13. Coming to Terms with Our Own Ends: Failed Reproduction and the End of the Hu/man in Claire Denis' High Life and Pella Kagerman and Hugo Lija's Aniara
Elif Sendur (Rutgers University, USA) and Allison Mackey (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay)

References
Index

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Feminist theory; science fiction; film; media; late 20th century; 21st century; human; man; disembodied female; masculinity; Enlightenment Humanism; transhumanist; cyborg; AI