Friday, June 8, 2012

?Woman: The Other Alien in Alien?

But the cottage industry of analysis that has sprung up around Alien is something else again. In 1980, the highly-respected academic journal Science Fiction Studies devoted an entire issue to the first Alien?an event that may, in time, come to rank alongside Cahiers du Cinema?s All-Hitchcock issue of 1956. Since then, there has been no looking back. We?ve had Alien as feminist allegory (?Woman: The Other Alien in Alien,? Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1985), Alien as mothering fable (?Mommie Dearest: Aliens, Rosemary's Baby, and Mothering,? Journal of Popular Culture 1990), Alien as abortion parable (?Voices of Sexual Distortion: Rape, Birth, and Self-Annihilation Metaphors in the Aliens Trilogy,? Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1995). Even Jones the cat got his own diagram, courtesy of James H. Kavenagh?s essay ?Son of a Bitch: Feminism, Humanism, and Science in Alien? (October, No. 13, 1980), which sought to align the alien attack on humans with an Althusserian-Marxist takedown of humanism in general:

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