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.
Tabela de Conteúdo
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Andrea Goulet and Robert A. Rushing
Part One: Performance/Technology/Gender
Gesture in Orphan Black
David F. Bell
Playing with Techno Dollies: 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
Sobre o autor
Robert A. Rushing is professor of Italian and comparative literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he also holds affiliate appointments in media and cinema studies and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. He is the author of Resisting Arrest: Detective Fiction and Popular Culture (Other Press, 2007) and Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen (Indiana University Press, 2016), which won the 2016 American Association for Italian Studies Best Book Prize (Film/Media). He is co-editor of two volumes on television: Mad Men, Mad World: Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s (Duke University Press, 2011) and Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics (Intellect, 2018). He has published widely on Italian cinema, especially popular genres, as well as American television and literature from Ovid to Calvino.Mais ebooks do mesmo autor(es) / Editor
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