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Cyborgs, Feminism and Films in the Postmodernist Perspective: An Analysis of the Film Titane
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Abstract
The movie Titane, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, caught the attention of the general public as a genre film that explores topics such as the family of origin, mechanical life, gender boundaries, and moral turmoil, to name a few. There are a number of points in the film that are close to Haraway’s assumptions in the Cyborg Manifesto, and this study is about to analyze its narrative textual content and significance from a postmodernist perspective, with a particular focus on postmodernist cyborgs, feminism, and cinematic works. It integrates postmodernist theories to analyze the narrative content, revealing the deconstruction of gender identity and the process of cyborg construction. The study engages in different dimensions of analysis as two parts: the first part is narrative analysis of the film on the theme of human-machine reproduction and life, the fluidity of identity politics; and the second part is the significant meaning of this film work in the postmodern perspective. It concludes that works of cyborg practice such as Titane are necessary for the postmodern key issues of present research and are far-reaching for the practice of cyborgs, feminism, and film culture. Furthermore, studying and interpreting the narrative and meaning of Titan serves as a secondary empowerment for the movie in itself.
Keywords
Titane, Cyborg Manifesto, feminism, postmodernist
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Liu,Y. (2023). Cyborgs, Feminism and Films in the Postmodernist Perspective: An Analysis of the Film Titane. Communications in Humanities Research,22,156-162.
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