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Alien (1979)

Alien (1979)

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Katy and Erika kick off Hot Alien Summer with--what else?--Ridley Scott's Alien. They dive deep into Joseph Conrad's Nostromo, technology as Mother, and why this is actually a pride episode.

  • "A Curious Case of Influence: Nostromo and Alien(s)," Ted Billy: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24634674?seq=1
  • "How 'Alien' (1979) Queered the Binaries of Traditional Gender," Michaela Barton: https://flipscreened.com/2020/08/18/how-alien-queered-the-binaries-of-traditional-gender/
  • "Reassessing Alien: Sexuality and the Anxieties of Men," Jason Haggstrom: https://reel3.com/reassessing-alien-sexuality-and-the-anxieties-of-men/
  • "Representations of the Body in Alien: Mother and the Other," Daniel Pimley: https://pimley.net/documents/the-body-in-alien.html
  • "The Virginity of Astronauts: Sex and the Science Fiction Film" in Alien Zone, Vivian Sobchak: https://www.versobooks.com/products/1299-alien-zone
  • "What 1979's Alien says About Humanity's Relationship with Sexuality," Hamad Naroze: https://studybreaks.com/tvfilm/film/what-1979s-alien-says-about-humanitys-relationship-with-sexuality/

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