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Title: Exploring alterities and empathy through posthuman feminine bodies in Under the Skin and Her
Authors: Tang, Hoiye
Keywords: Arts and Humanities
Issue Date: 2023
Publisher: Nanyang Technological University
Source: Tang, H. (2023). Exploring alterities and empathy through posthuman feminine bodies in Under the Skin and Her. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/182269
Abstract: In this essay, the two films of interest are Spike Jonze’s Her (2013) and Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin (2013). The films’ portrayals of posthuman feminine subjects are mediated by gendered concerns as presented through the posthumanist lens. Posthumanism questions the self-assured binarism upheld and enforced by humanist tradition and its anthropocentric ideologies. Science fiction has contributed significantly in the posthumanist discourse, being imperative in the disruption of human-centric narratives through its depiction of non-human subjects. Florence Chiew further states that posthumanism recognises that “human ways of knowing and being in the world do not have privilege or priority over the myriad variety of ways that nonhuman entities… encounter and apprehend the world” (2). The non-human subjects in Her and Under the Skin present such alterities whose perspectives are focalised and given voice to in the films.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/182269
Schools: School of Humanities 
Fulltext Permission: restricted
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