Orphan Black

Performance, Gender, Biopolitics

Andrea Goulet, Robert A. Rushing (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

220 Seiten

2019
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-78320-922-4 (ISBN)

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Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics is an edited collection that covers the areas in which the series has generated the most academic interest: performance and technology; gender and reproduction; biopolitics and community.

Chapters explore the digital innovations and technical interactions between human and machine that allow the show to challenge conventional notions of performance and identity, while others address family themes and Orphan Black’s own textual genealogy within the contexts of (post-)evolutionary science, reproductive technology and the politics of gender. Still others extend that inquiry on family to the broader question of community in a ‘posthuman’ world of biopolitical power; here, scholars mobilize philosophy, history of science and literary theory to analyze how Orphan Black depicts resistance to the many forms of power that attempt to capture, monitor and shape life.

Andrea Goulet is professor and graduate chair of French and francophone studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Robert A. Rushing is professor of Italian and comparative literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Andrea Goulet and Robert A. Rushing

Part One: Performance/Technology/Gender

Gesture in Orphan Black

David F. Bell

Playing with TechnoDollies: The TV Actress and Other Technologies

Christopher Grobe

Animating Cloning: Special Effects and Mediated Bodies in Orphan Black and Jurassic Park

Simon Porzak

Watching While (Face) Blind: Clone Layering and Prosopagnosia

Sharrona Pearl

Part Two: Reproduction/Biopolitics/Community

Game of Clones: Orphan Black’s Family Romance

John C. Stout

Orphan Black and the Ideology of DNA

Hilary Neroni

Being Together: Immunity and Community in Orphan Black

Jessica Tanner

The Dancing Women: Decoding Biopolitical Fantasy

Robert A. Rushing

The Replicant’s ‘Réplique’: Motherhood and the Posthuman Family as Resistance in Orphan Black

Andrea Goulet

Afterword: Reflections on the Show, and Interviews with Cast, Crew and Creators

Lili Loofbourow

Appendix: Orphan Black Episodes 203

References 207

Notes on Contributors 217

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.10.2018
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 229 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-78320-922-4 / 1783209224
ISBN-13	978-1-78320-922-4 / 9781783209224
Zustand	Neuware