Queering the Terminator : sexuality and cyborg cinema /

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 monstro...

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Main Author: Greven, David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Desire, but Were Afraid to Ask a Terminator
  • "John Connor, It Is Time": Queer Spectatorship and the Primal Scene
  • "It's Just Him And Me": The Terminator
  • Cyborg Masochism and Homo-Fascism: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  • Falling Behind: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
  • Facing the Father: Terminator Salvation
  • Magnetic Connections: Terminator Genisys
  • Epilogue: Notes on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.