1. NEW MEDIA New Possibilities or New Modes of Surveillance? Taïsa Rose & Amber Woodward New Possibilities or New Modes of Surveillance? Taïsa Rose & Amber Woodward

2. Science Fiction  What is it?  Why are we looking at it?  What does it have to do with us?  What is it?  Why are we looking at it?  What does it have to do with us?

3. “… Science fiction is concerned with sorting out the problems and concerns of the present world, interpreting gender concerns, race relationships, class conflicts, and other issues of our daily lives. This is one of the primary reasons science fiction is crucial to study when analyzing women’s changing roles; these new roles are often first visible in science fiction and other similar alternative media forms, such as comic books or underground ‘zines.” - Inness

4. Main Issues  Gender in Science Fiction  Race in Science Fiction  New technologies in Science Fiction  Gender in Science Fiction  Race in Science Fiction  New technologies in Science Fiction

5. Gender in Science Fiction  Frontier for breaking down gender and race barriers  Two main representations of female gender types in sci-fi  Frontier for breaking down gender and race barriers  Two main representations of female gender types in sci-fi

7. Ripley from Alien Barbarella from Barbarella Vasquez from Aliens Diana Prince from Wonder Woman Pris from Bladerunner Rachel from Bladerunner Zhora from Bladerunner Boomer from Battlestar Galactica Max from Dark Angel Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica Nikita from La Femme Nikita Leeloo from Fifth Element Trinity from The Matrix Bai Ling from Sky Captain Hoshi Sato from Star Trek: Ent. B’Elanna from Star Trek: Voyager T’Pol from Star Trek: Enterprise Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager Uhura from Star Trek Seven of Nine from Star Trek: Voyager Sarah Connor from Terminator 2 Terminatrix from Terminator 3 Ripley from Alien Barbarella from Barbarella Vasquez from Aliens Diana Prince from Wonder Woman Pris from Bladerunner Rachel from Bladerunner Zhora from Bladerunner Boomer from Battlestar Galactica Max from Dark Angel Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica Nikita from La Femme Nikita Leeloo from Fifth Element Trinity from The Matrix Bai Ling from Sky Captain Hoshi Sato from Star Trek: Ent. B’Elanna from Star Trek: Voyager T’Pol from Star Trek: Enterprise Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager Uhura from Star Trek Seven of Nine from Star Trek: Voyager Sarah Connor from Terminator 2 Terminatrix from Terminator 3

8.  The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women on Screen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6aOiNXYQNw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6aOiNXYQNw  How are these characters similar?  How are they different?  What have they had to give up?  How are they three-dimensional? Or are they?  The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women on Screen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6aOiNXYQNw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6aOiNXYQNw  How are these characters similar?  How are they different?  What have they had to give up?  How are they three-dimensional? Or are they?

9. Two Main Character Types All these characters seem to fall into one of the two main types of ‘warrior women’: 1. Sexual Aggressor/Sex Kitten 2. Tough

10. Sexual Aggressor Six from Battlestar Galactica Pris from Bladerunner Six from Battlestar Galactica Pris from Bladerunner

11. Tough: Sub-types Man in a woman’s body “Ripley” Butch lesbian “Vasquez” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eycDq4NW88o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eycDq4NW88o Emotionally tough “Captain Janeway” Man in a woman’s body “Ripley” Butch lesbian “Vasquez” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eycDq4NW88o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eycDq4NW88o Emotionally tough “Captain Janeway”

12. Regarding Ripley: “He strips his character of most of the trappings of cultural femininity in order to make her an equal and often superior soldier in a group of tough military men. She wears no makeup and sports cropped hair. She has tight control of her emotions, maintains a fit, muscular body, and interacts with men on the spaceship with almost no reference to her gender.” - Mainon & Ursini, pg. 190

13. Battlestar Galactica Ron Moore - Executive Producer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4REUvuT0u0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w-9NglSNG0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w-9NglSNG0 (6:00-7:10 Boomer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4TI4CwYoTs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4TI4CwYoTs (1:05 - 2:40) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMqxLdvCQ1g (1:53-4:20) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMqxLdvCQ1g Starbuck http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0oErSGxvWQ (0:00 - :45) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAP-0vz_qEU (1:55-5:30) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f7GRt1u4Ek (2:20 - 3:15) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0oErSGxvWQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAP-0vz_qEU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f7GRt1u4Ek Ron Moore - Executive Producer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4REUvuT0u0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w-9NglSNG0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w-9NglSNG0 (6:00-7:10 Boomer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4TI4CwYoTs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4TI4CwYoTs (1:05 - 2:40) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMqxLdvCQ1g (1:53-4:20) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMqxLdvCQ1g Starbuck http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0oErSGxvWQ (0:00 - :45) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAP-0vz_qEU (1:55-5:30) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f7GRt1u4Ek (2:20 - 3:15) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0oErSGxvWQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAP-0vz_qEU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f7GRt1u4Ek

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15. Battlestar Galactica

16. Morphology  Biological notions of racial differences  Hierarchy/power  SIM Eve  Biological notions of racial differences  Hierarchy/power  SIM Eve

17. “A nose is a nose is a nose. No matter what race you are.” - Hammond http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi7QQ5pO7_A “A nose is a nose is a nose. No matter what race you are.” - Hammond http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi7QQ5pO7_A

18. “Cyberspace and race have at least one important thing in common: both are consensual hallucinations” – Nakamura Cybertypes  Cybertypes - Race and Sci-Fi  Addressing miscegenation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG_bHeoqaOc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG_bHeoqaOc  What will happen to race?  Cybertypes - Race and Sci-Fi  Addressing miscegenation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG_bHeoqaOc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG_bHeoqaOc  What will happen to race?

19. Access and Technology  Circulation of information  Colorblind  Circulation of information  Colorblind “The possibilities of the internet and cyber space are like a post-structuralist dream (or nightmare) come true: one can be anybody, disembodied, and re-embodied all at the same time.” - Gray

20. In Conclusion…  Science fiction has been a leading media vehicle in sorting out social, political, cultural, gender and race issues and barriers.  Gender roles in science-fiction have come a long way but still seem to employ traditional female characteristics in order to minimize the threat that strong women pose to the male hegemony.  Race is a socially constructed idea that has been created to give people of ‘non’ race a way to understand different races.  Race is slowly diminishing as different races are morphing and creating new races.  Science fiction has been a leading media vehicle in sorting out social, political, cultural, gender and race issues and barriers.  Gender roles in science-fiction have come a long way but still seem to employ traditional female characteristics in order to minimize the threat that strong women pose to the male hegemony.  Race is a socially constructed idea that has been created to give people of ‘non’ race a way to understand different races.  Race is slowly diminishing as different races are morphing and creating new races.