TY - JOUR
T1 - Counter-imagination as interpretive practice
T2 - Futuristic fantasy and the fifth element
AU - Ott, Brian L.
AU - Aoki, Eric
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - This essay concerns the relationship between popular cinematic visions of the future and present day identity politics. We argue that despite its futuristic setting celebrating technological progress and multiculturalism. Luc Besson's 1997 film The Fifth Element constructs sexual and racial difference in a manner that privileges and naturalizes White heterosexual masculinity. The essay offers counter-imagination as an interpretive practice that destabilizes the categories of sexual and racial difference as they are negotiated within appeals to popular imagination.
AB - This essay concerns the relationship between popular cinematic visions of the future and present day identity politics. We argue that despite its futuristic setting celebrating technological progress and multiculturalism. Luc Besson's 1997 film The Fifth Element constructs sexual and racial difference in a manner that privileges and naturalizes White heterosexual masculinity. The essay offers counter-imagination as an interpretive practice that destabilizes the categories of sexual and racial difference as they are negotiated within appeals to popular imagination.
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U2 - 10.1080/07491409.2004.10162471
DO - 10.1080/07491409.2004.10162471
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84880177268
VL - 27
SP - 149
EP - 176
JO - Women's Studies in Communication
JF - Women's Studies in Communication
SN - 0749-1409
IS - 2
ER -