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Our podcast is about the roles women play in Science Fiction and how they are portrayed. We will be discussing Science Fiction film and literature through a feminist lens with a concentration on the women of color. We chose this topic because we are the only women in our class. Also after watching The Forbidden Planet, we shared strong thoughts on how “Alta” was being portrayed in the film. We hope to shed more light to the evolution of women through the years in science fiction, as characte ...
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Ep 3: Women In Science Fiction Movies
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Our final episode focused on the representation and portrayal of women in science fiction films. We began our discussion with the first film we watched in class, Forbidden Planet, and how Alta, the only woman on the planet, interacted with the men in the film. We then moved on to different films in the 20th and then 21st centuries, mainly focusing …
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Ep 2: Women in Science Fiction Literature
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In our second episode we discuss a brief, somewhat chronological order of women in the realm of science fiction as both writers and and fans. We talk about how the science fiction field is mainly male dominated but over time women have been making a stance and there many great female authors who have been recognized for their works. We talked about…
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In our first episode we discuss the origins of science fiction. This episode we focus on the God Mother of science fiction Mary Shelley. We start off with a brief biography of Mary Shelley and how her novel Frankenstein came to be. We touch on how the women in the novel are treated and portrayed. Also discussing how Shelley used her writing a socia…
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