"I'm a Stranger Here Myself": Forced Individuation in Alien Resurrection.
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 2007, Fall, 17
-
- $5.99
-
- $5.99
Publisher Description
Kile M. Ortigo Department of Psychology Emory University In Alien Resurrection, Ripley's hybridity catalyzes her unnatural individuation--a unique and significant contribution to the technological myth. Using an analytic framework created from Jung, Rushing, Frentz, and Haraway, I chart Ripley's complex journey towards individuation, beginning with spiritual mentoring, moving through the mythic significance of her dual wounds, including her equally important double captivity, and the final challenge towards a hybrid mode of individuation in the form of her hideous offspring, the Newborn. The film suggests that the next hope for humanity is either its fragmented creations or the embracing of our own hybrid identities.
More Books Like This
More Books by Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
Forest Spirits, Giant Insects and World Trees: The Nature Vision of Hayao Miyazaki.
2005
Is God in Charge? Mary Doria Russell's the Sparrow , Deconstruction, And Theodicy.
2005
"Stand Tall, Turn Your Three Guitars up Real Loud, And Do What You Do": The Redneck Liberation Theology of the Drive-by Truckers (Critical Essay)
2006
TLC and the Fundamentalist Family: A Televised Quiverfull of Babies (Essay)
2010
Transgressing Boundaries in the Nine Inch Nails: The Grotesque As a Means to the Sacred.
2005
"Love in the Clouds": Barbara Cartland's Religious Romances (Report)
2009