Queering the Terminator: Sexuality and Cyborg Cinema

by David Greven

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501348078
• ISBN13: 9781501348075
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"