Author: Strzelczyk, Florentine

Source: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik, Textmaschinenkorper Genderorienterte Lekturen Des Androiden. Herausgegeben Eva Kormann, Anke Gilleir Und Angelika Schlimmer , pp. 243-253(11)

Publisher: Rodopi

Abstract:

Androids and female cyborgs are essential to the repertoire of science fiction films. While the genre has changed significantly since the nineteentwenties, representations of female androids and cyborgs have not. Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1926) and Star Trek: First Contact (1996) show striking similarities between the conceptualization of the Machine-Maria in Lang's film and the Borg Queen in Star Trek. While Lang's Machine-Maria expresses early 20th-century fears of female sexuality and machine technology, the character of the Borg Queen is marked by different anxieties about new microelectronic forms of communication that are coded as excessive and uncontainable female sexuality. Lang's film, then, functions as a blueprint that can be filled with new and changing political content concerning technology and gender.

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2006-01-01

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