Alien woman : the making of Lt. Ellen Ripley
This text examines the construction of sex and gender in the four science-fiction films comprising the Alien saga (starring Sigourney Weaver). It will be useful to researchers and teachers in film, mass communication, women's studies, gender studies and genre studies
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780826415691, 9780826415707, 0826415695, 0826415709
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Introduction: Can't live with them, can't kill them
Men, women, and an Alien baby
Ripley gets her gun: Aliens and the Reagan era hero
"The bitch is back": the iconoclastic body in Alien 3
"Who are you?": Alien Resurrection and the posthuman subject
Afterword: Alien Woman