Under the Skin (Original title)
Dates: 2013 (Copyright), 14 March 2014 (Release)Countries: United Kingdom, USA, SwitzerlandDirector: Jonathan Glazer
Synopsis: Horror/Science fiction. An extra-terrestrial seductress preys on men in Scotland by driving round the streets in a van, asking lone men for directions and then offering them a lift. She then takes them to a remote, run-down house where she traps them in a strange black substance from which there is no escape. The alien, though able to flirt, is at a loss with normal human interaction and frequently puzzles people, and becomes vulnerable, with her unusual behaviour (such as going out without a coat in bad weather) and her long silences.
Genres: Horror, Science Fiction
Subjects: Aliens, Glasgow, Flirting
Releases
Date: October 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specifiedRuntime: 108 mins 19 secs - Distributor: BFIPlayer
Date: 14 March 2014Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundAspect ratio: 1.85:1Runtime: 107 mins 59 secs - Length: 9718 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: StudioCanal Limited
Title: façade of feminism: Scarlett Johansson and miss representationAuthor: Matthews, MalcolmArticle type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: 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 Pages: 13-19
Title: Performing the inhuman: Scarlett Johansson and sf filmAuthor: Shetley, VernonArticle type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: 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 Pages: 29-35
Title: Johansson's real performance: documentary style in Under the SkinAuthor: Byrnes, AliciaArticle type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: 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 the ways in which documentary principles infiltrate the form of Scarlett Johansson’s film ‘Under the Skin’ (2013). The article argues that the realism of the film undercuts the viewer’s awareness of Johansson’s iconography.
In: Science fiction film and television v9 n2 Summer 2016 Pages: 309-313
Title: Under the SkinAuthor: Phillips-Carr, ChelseaArticle type: DVD ReviewLanguage: English
Description: DVD review.
In: Screen International n1499 29 Apr 2005 Page: 9
Title: Close encounters on the shop floorAuthor: MACNAB, Geoffrey Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Production details of UNDER THE SKIN by Jonathan Glazer who has re-teamed with writer Milo Addica.
Author: Empey, Julia A. Pages: x, 310 pages
Title: Transnationalism & genre hybridity in new British horror cinema
Author: Decker, Lindsey Pages: 258 pages
Title: Femininity and psychoanalysis: cinema, culture, theory
Author: Piotrowska, Agnieszka Pages: xii, 261 pages
Dates: 2013 (Copyright), 14 March 2014 (Release)Countries: United Kingdom, USA, SwitzerlandDirector: Jonathan Glazer
Synopsis: Horror/Science fiction. An extra-terrestrial seductress preys on men in Scotland by driving round the streets in a van, asking lone men for directions and then offering them a lift. She then takes them to a remote, run-down house where she traps them in a strange black substance from which there is no escape. The alien, though able to flirt, is at a loss with normal human interaction and frequently puzzles people, and becomes vulnerable, with her unusual behaviour (such as going out without a coat in bad weather) and her long silences.
Genres: Horror, Science Fiction
Subjects: Aliens, Glasgow, Flirting
Releases
Date: October 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specifiedRuntime: 108 mins 19 secs - Distributor: BFIPlayer
Date: 14 March 2014Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundAspect ratio: 1.85:1Runtime: 107 mins 59 secs - Length: 9718 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: StudioCanal Limited
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library
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In: Science fiction film and television v11 n1 Spring 2018 Pages: 5-11Title: façade of feminism: Scarlett Johansson and miss representationAuthor: Matthews, MalcolmArticle type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: 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 Pages: 13-19
Title: Performing the inhuman: Scarlett Johansson and sf filmAuthor: Shetley, VernonArticle type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: 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 Pages: 29-35
Title: Johansson's real performance: documentary style in Under the SkinAuthor: Byrnes, AliciaArticle type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: 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 the ways in which documentary principles infiltrate the form of Scarlett Johansson’s film ‘Under the Skin’ (2013). The article argues that the realism of the film undercuts the viewer’s awareness of Johansson’s iconography.
In: Science fiction film and television v9 n2 Summer 2016 Pages: 309-313
Title: Under the SkinAuthor: Phillips-Carr, ChelseaArticle type: DVD ReviewLanguage: English
Description: DVD review.
In: Screen International n1499 29 Apr 2005 Page: 9
Title: Close encounters on the shop floorAuthor: MACNAB, Geoffrey Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Production details of UNDER THE SKIN by Jonathan Glazer who has re-teamed with writer Milo Addica.
Books held in BFI Reuben Library
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Title: Feminist posthumanism in contemporary science fiction film and media: from Annihilation to High Life and beyondAuthor: Empey, Julia A. Pages: x, 310 pages
Title: Transnationalism & genre hybridity in new British horror cinema
Author: Decker, Lindsey Pages: 258 pages
Title: Femininity and psychoanalysis: cinema, culture, theory
Author: Piotrowska, Agnieszka Pages: xii, 261 pages