- TitleLucy (Original)
- ArticlesArticles held in BFI Reuben LibraryIn: Science fiction film and television v11 n1 Spring 2018, pp. 5-11
façade of feminism: Scarlett Johansson and miss representation / Malcolm Matthews
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Part of 'Stardom and sf: a symposium on the sf films of Scarlett Johansson', a collection of articles addressing issues of celebrity and the science fiction genre. This article sets out to identify Scarlett Johansson, in the context of four of her science fiction films (‘Under the Skin’ (2013), ‘Her’ (2013), ‘Lucy’ (2014), and ‘Ghost in the Shell’ (2017)), as a cultural mechanism with a distinct rhetorical function, and to challenge the suggestion that her roles in these films represent figures of female empowerment.In: Science fiction film and television v11 n1 Spring 2018, pp. 13-19
Performing the inhuman: Scarlett Johansson and sf film / Vernon Shetley
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Part of 'Stardom and sf: a symposium on the sf films of Scarlett Johansson', a collection of articles addressing issues of celebrity and the science fiction genre. This article gives a reading of three of Scarlet Johansson’s films (‘Her’ (2013), ‘Under the Skin’ (2013), and ‘Lucy’ (2014)) through their respective forms of interplay between particular elements of Johansson’s star persona and the gendered hierarchies against which her characters rebel.In: Science fiction film and television v11 n1 Spring 2018, pp. 21-28
Between attraction and anxiety: Scarlett Johansson, female knowledge and the mind-body split in Lucy / Kirsten Stevens
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Part of 'Stardom and sf: a symposium on the sf films of Scarlett Johansson', a collection of articles addressing issues of celebrity and the science fiction genre. This article examines Scarlett Johansson’s film ‘Lucy’ (2014), exploring how the mind/body and male/female binaries continue to operate as a site of tension within sf texts when it comes to gender roles.