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Reproductive Futurism and the Woman Problem in the Films of Denis Villeneuve
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This chapter examines the functions of reproductive futurism throughout Denis Villeneuve’s films, most specifically in Arrival (2016) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017). The author investigates how BR 2049’s reflections on reproduction and fertility, represented by the ‘miracle’ of Rachael and Deckard’s Replicant-born child, uphold a gendered and racialized ideal of biological reproductive truth. In Arrival, however, the female protagonist’s encounter with the Heptapod Other unsettles the narrative of the ‘precocious child,’ while ultimately falling back into a proscriptive reproductive futurity.
Title: Reproductive Futurism and the Woman Problem in the Films of Denis Villeneuve
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This chapter examines the functions of reproductive futurism throughout Denis Villeneuve’s films, most specifically in Arrival (2016) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017).
The author investigates how BR 2049’s reflections on reproduction and fertility, represented by the ‘miracle’ of Rachael and Deckard’s Replicant-born child, uphold a gendered and racialized ideal of biological reproductive truth.
In Arrival, however, the female protagonist’s encounter with the Heptapod Other unsettles the narrative of the ‘precocious child,’ while ultimately falling back into a proscriptive reproductive futurity.
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