Orphan Black (eBook)

Performance, Gender, Biopolitics

Andrea Goulet, Robert A. Rushing (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
Intellect Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78320-923-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This book presents a groundbreaking exploration of the hit television series Orphan Black and the questions it raises for performance and technology, gender and reproduction and biopolitics and community. Contributors come from a range of backgrounds and explore the digital innovations and technical interactions between human and machine that allow the show to challenge conventional notions of performance and identity, address family themes, and Orphan Black's own textual genealogy within the contexts of science, reproductive technology and the politics of gender, and extend their inquiry to the broader question of community in a "posthuman" world of biopolitical power. Mobilizing philosophy, history of science and literary theory, scholars analyze the ways in which Orphan Black depicts resistance to the many forms of power that attempt to capture, monitor and shape life today.

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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.

Autor

lt;p>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. 

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.1.2019
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 170 x 170 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Anarchy • Animating Cloning • Biopolitical Power • Biopolitics • Clone Layering • Community • Digital Innovations • Family • Gender • Identity • Jurrassic Park • Motherhood • Orphan Black • Performance • Reproduction • Technical Interaction • Technology • tv production
• ISBN-10: 1-78320-923-2 / 1783209232
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78320-923-1 / 9781783209231