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Counter-imagination as interpretive practice: futuristic fantasy and The Fifth Element

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dc.contributor.authorAoki, Eric, author
dc.contributor.authorOtt, Brian L., author
dc.contributor.authorOrganization for Research on Women and Communication, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T07:28:06Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T07:28:06Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.descriptionBrian Ott was a professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Colorado State University.
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.
dc.description.abstractThis essay concerns the relationship between popular cinematic visions of the future and present day identity politics. The authors argue that despite its futuristic setting celebrating technological progress and multiculturalism, Luc Besson's 1997 film The Fifth Element constructs sexual and racial difference in a manner that privileges and naturalizes White heterosexual masculinity. The essay offers counter-imagination as an interpretive practice that destabilizes the categories of sexual and racial difference as they are negotiated within appeals to popular imagination.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationOtt, Brian L. and Eric Aoki, Counter-Imagination as Interpretive Practice: Futuristic Fantasy and The Fifth Element. Women's Studies in Communication 27, no. 2 (Summer 2004): [149]-176. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2004.10162471
dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2004.10162471
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/644
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
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dc.rights©2004 Organization for Research on Women and Communication.
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dc.subjectscience fiction films
dc.subjectThe Fifth Element
dc.subjectcounter-imagination
dc.subjectsex
dc.subjectrace
dc.titleCounter-imagination as interpretive practice: futuristic fantasy and The Fifth Element
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