Exploring alterities and empathy through posthuman feminine bodies in Under the Skin and Her
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...
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Nanyang Technological University
2025
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/182269 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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