Christine Cornea
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748624652
- eISBN:
- 9780748671106
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748624652.003.0006
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter explores how issues of race are played out in science fiction films. It also deals with the differences and similarities between the representations of racial issues between ...
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This chapter explores how issues of race are played out in science fiction films. It also deals with the differences and similarities between the representations of racial issues between Euro-American films and American-produced films. Star Trek and Planet of the Apes presented audiences with a future/present world in which racial difference equalled inequality, violent discord, division and conflict. The authentic/inauthentic opposition in science fiction films is then addressed. The black protagonists in Strange Days and Virtuosity act as a kind of reminder of what the white community appears to have lost or, perhaps, never had. ‘Oriental’ characters also appear in a number of Hollywood films. A variety of responses by a European film industry to Hollywood science fiction is noted and there are also clear similarities between these otherwise diverse films. An interview with Joe Morton is presented, which deals with racial issues in science fiction films.Less
This chapter explores how issues of race are played out in science fiction films. It also deals with the differences and similarities between the representations of racial issues between Euro-American films and American-produced films. Star Trek and Planet of the Apes presented audiences with a future/present world in which racial difference equalled inequality, violent discord, division and conflict. The authentic/inauthentic opposition in science fiction films is then addressed. The black protagonists in Strange Days and Virtuosity act as a kind of reminder of what the white community appears to have lost or, perhaps, never had. ‘Oriental’ characters also appear in a number of Hollywood films. A variety of responses by a European film industry to Hollywood science fiction is noted and there are also clear similarities between these otherwise diverse films. An interview with Joe Morton is presented, which deals with racial issues in science fiction films.
Martha Feldman
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780520279490
- eISBN:
- 9780520962033
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520279490.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
The castrato voice sheds light on the figure of the deluxe singing star. Castrato singing was a form of supreme cultural currency, negotiable in the public sphere, at court, among princes, and in ...
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The castrato voice sheds light on the figure of the deluxe singing star. Castrato singing was a form of supreme cultural currency, negotiable in the public sphere, at court, among princes, and in chapels. Castrato figures in these spaces deploy voice charismatically in ways that make an outsider-singer a virtual double to the king and the king’s cognates. The castrato so made threatens usurpation through mediatized performance of the kingly function whose charismatic role figures within the landscape of a failing absolutist—an abject figure onto whom a luxurious surplus is displaced.Less
The castrato voice sheds light on the figure of the deluxe singing star. Castrato singing was a form of supreme cultural currency, negotiable in the public sphere, at court, among princes, and in chapels. Castrato figures in these spaces deploy voice charismatically in ways that make an outsider-singer a virtual double to the king and the king’s cognates. The castrato so made threatens usurpation through mediatized performance of the kingly function whose charismatic role figures within the landscape of a failing absolutist—an abject figure onto whom a luxurious surplus is displaced.
