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Girard, Theresa Mary.

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Alternate futures: The transposition of women's roles in science fiction from print to visual media.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Alternate futures: The transposition of women's roles in science fiction from print to visual media./
Author:	Girard, Theresa Mary.
Description:	158 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Anca Vlasopolos; Robert Burgoyne.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-03A.
Subject:	Cinema. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3010086
ISBN:	049319830X

Alternate futures: The transposition of women's roles in science fiction from print to visual media.
Girard, Theresa Mary.

Alternate futures: The transposition of women's roles in science fiction from print to visual media. - 158 p.

Advisers: Anca Vlasopolos; Robert Burgoyne.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wayne State University, 2001.

Science fiction, for many decades, was dominated by male writers writing about past, present, and future patriarchal societies, and these authors became visionaries about the direction human society was taking. As women became more interested in science and science fiction, some male authors attempted to incorporate this “new” woman into the futures about which they were writing. Because society has changed so drastically in the decades since the 1960's, it is important to analyze the characterization of women in mainstream science fiction novels and visual media. As women are reflected in various stages of visionary or cautionary modes, it may be possible to determine how women can or should prepare themselves for the twenty-first century.

ISBN: 049319830XSubjects--Topical Terms:

854529
Cinema.

Alternate futures: The transposition of women's roles in science fiction from print to visual media.
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520 $a Science fiction, for many decades, was dominated by male writers writing about past, present, and future patriarchal societies, and these authors became visionaries about the direction human society was taking. As women became more interested in science and science fiction, some male authors attempted to incorporate this “new” woman into the futures about which they were writing. Because society has changed so drastically in the decades since the 1960's, it is important to analyze the characterization of women in mainstream science fiction novels and visual media. As women are reflected in various stages of visionary or cautionary modes, it may be possible to determine how women can or should prepare themselves for the twenty-first century.
520 $a This study will be a comparison which will focus on four science fiction novels and their visual adaptations by means of formal critical works and personal analysis. In comparing and contrasting science fiction novels and visual adaptations, it is of great benefit to be able to look at the filmic interpretations of the novels in question. In the filmic versions, the influence of society is seen more clearly because filmmakers adapt novels in such a way as to draw the largest possible audience. When one determines what society views as important, intriguing, and/or interesting, the findings can be extrapolated to show that the influence of a specific segment of society on a specific author at a specific time can be very different than on society as a whole. It is also possible to see how societal views may differ from the author's view. In this way, a determination can be made as to the validity of the visionary or cautionary aspects of each work. The hypothesized results will show that the films are skewed in terms of the filmmakers' views on society's stand on patriarchy versus feminism, rather than the author's presumed intent.
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