Mammor, monster och maskiner. Representationer av kvinnor i science fiction-film

Abstract

From the expandingfield of popularscience fiction this artide concentrates on three sf-films: Star Tre k: First Contact (1999), Terminator 2: ludgement Day(199i) and Alien Resurrection (1997). In all three films we find different variations on a stereotype representation of femininity. The artide begins with a discussion of populär culture and the images we meet everyday, and stresses the importance of remembering which genre one works with. Three common tropes are analysed: the mother, the monster and the machine. In Star Trek: First Contactwe find the borg-queen; a variation of the evil she-monster disguised as a machine. In Terminator 2 we have a strong heroine who is described in a very ambivalent way. The artide argues that Alien: Resurrection represents a different kind of populär culture. It is an example of a populär film that plays with the genre's rules in an ironic fashion, and in the film we have a different representation of Ripley as both mother and monster that reaches beyond the stereotype.