LEADER 04140oam 22006972 450 001 9910458974903321 005 20200514202323.0 010 $a1-62892-897-2 010 $a1-283-00441-0 010 $a9786613004413 010 $a1-4411-8093-1 024 7 $a10.5040/9781628928976 035 $a(CKB)2560000000058634 035 $a(EBL)655505 035 $a(OCoLC)701719370 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000473339 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12167129 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000473339 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10436873 035 $a(PQKB)11171346 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC655505 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL655505 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10447199 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL300441 035 $a(OCoLC)893335385 035 $a(OCoLC)1154888191 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09257653 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000058634 100 $a20100330d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSpace oddities $ewomen and outer space in film, 1960-2000 /$fby Marie Lathers 210 1$aNew York :$cContinuum,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 240 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4411-7205-X 311 $a1-4411-9049-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Space for women: a problem deferred. It's about time : a brief history of women in space -- Arrows of time -- No official requirement -- Astronauts on display -- Bottled up : inner and outer space in I dream of Jeannie. Screen memories -- Alienation and the Arab body -- There is another kind of space here -- Staying home : astronaut wives and domestic engineering. Angels in the house -- The engineered century -- Mothers in space -- Chimpanzees in space and Gorillas in the mist. We are the monkey -- The colonialist imperative -- The old lady who lives in the forest without a man -- The astronaut's new clothes : naked in space in Nude on the moon, Barbarella, and Alien. Dressing for success -- Cosmic striptease -- In space no one can see you undress -- Making contact. First contact -- Contact in the 1990s -- Kissing cousins -- Conclusion : black holes and the body of the astrophysicist. 330 8 $a Space Oddities examines the representation of women in outer space films from 1960 to 2000, with an emphasis on films in which women are either denied or given the role of astronaut.  Marie Lathers traces an evolution in this representation from women as aliens and/or "assistant" astronauts, to women as astronaut wives, to women as astronauts themselves. Many popular films from the era are considered, as are earlier films (from Aelita Queen of Mars to Devil Girl From Mars) and historical records, literary fiction, and television shows (especially I Dream of Jeannie).  Early 1960s attempts by women pilots to enter the Space Race are considered as is the media drama surrounding the death of Christa McAuliffe.  In addition to its insightful film scholarship, this is an important addition to current reassessments of the Space Race. By applying insights from contemporary gender, race, and species theories to popular imaginings of women in space, the status of the Space Race as a cultural construct that reproduces and/or warps terrestrial gender structures is revealed. 606 $aOuter space in motion pictures 606 $aScience fiction films$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen in motion pictures 606 $aWomen scientists in motion pictures 606 $2Film theory & criticism 615 0$aOuter space in motion pictures. 615 0$aScience fiction films$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen in motion pictures. 615 0$aWomen scientists in motion pictures. 676 $a791.43/615 700 $aLathers$b Marie$0958728 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458974903321 996 $aSpace oddities$92172366 997 $aUNINA