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Cyborgasm: machines and male hysteria in the cinema of the eighties

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posted on 2025-05-11, 08:57 authored by Marj Kibby
In the films of the eighties the figure of the cyborg combines violence and loss of self in an hysterical response to the impact of technological development and rapid social change on masculinity and patriarchy.

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    URL - Is published in http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/publications/jigs/volume-1-2-sept-1996.html

Journal title

Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies: JIGS

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1

Issue

2

Pagination

139-145

Publisher

University of Newcastle, Faculty of Education and Arts

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  • en, English

College/Research Centre

Faculty of Education and Arts

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    films1980scyborgstechnological developmentmasculinitypatriarchy

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