Tag Archives: Gender

Sergio Martino, Torso

By Steen | April 29, 2007

Martino’s Torso is really a perfect example of the giallo genre. Plenty of naked girls, an insane killer, suspense and slashings. The only real weakness it has is its insistence on showing poorly executed gore sequences. As a low-budget film, it works extremely well, but in these gore sequences it is difficult not to lose [...]

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Patchwork Identity

By Steen | July 18, 2006

The situation is quite different in Shelley Jackson’s hypertext Patchwork Girl, which does not partake in the device of the alien but instead casts identity differently. Identity is explicitly regarded as being constructed, hence the invocation of patchwork. Furthermore, the text itself is regarded as a patchwork constructed from a number of texts, all of [...]

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Constructing the Alien

By Steen | July 13, 2006

Employing the device of the alien has become a favoured tactic of many, but in 1972 it was an unusual move when semi-unknown musician David Bowie did it. Creating a concept album focussing on an alien visitor known as Ziggy Stardust, Bowie also took on the persona of this Ziggy Stardust conflating any sense of [...]

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Cyborgs and Posthumans: The Slipstream of Theory

By Steen | October 10, 2005

In this chapter, I will examine a change which has occurred in cultural theory within these last twenty or so years; metaphors and concepts from the science fiction genre (sf) has to an increasing extent turned up in order to express occurrences in contemporary culture. Generally, these concepts are used to turn events into facts, [...]

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Robert Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

By Steen | October 9, 2005

No wonder that Heinlein is regarded as one of the premiere sf writers and why practically all who discuss sf poetics have to at least mention Heinlein briefly. His ability to create other worlds through language is quite impressive, especially since it always seems so easy and logical. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is [...]

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