Sentimental Journeys: Female Astronauts and Gendered (Im)mobilities on the ‘Final Frontier’ in Twenty-First-Century Hollywood
- Autor(en)
- Alexandra Ganser-Blumenau, Claire Cazajous-Augé, Jens Temmen
- Abstrakt
This article examines the cultural function of the female astronaut in contemporary Hollywood by discussing two exemplary case studies, Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Interstellar (2014) and the lesser-known Netflix series AWAY (2020). It combines a mobility studies and affect studies approach, arguing that female astronauts’ mobility is visually and narratively displaced by affective movement through the employment of sentimentalism as a form of public intimacy, following Lauren Berlant’s terminology. In this, the ‘final frontier’ operates, symbolically, similarly to the western frontier of the nineteenth century, with women embodying what Amy Kaplan famously termed “manifest domesticity.” Especially female astronaut-mothers are cast to stand for the future survival of the traditional U.S.-American family and thus the nation itself.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU)
- Journal
- Caliban French Journal of English Studies
- Band
- 74
- ISSN
- 2431-1766
- Publikationsdatum
- 11-2025
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 602005 Amerikanistik
- Schlagwörter
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/2894b917-9754-453e-a906-44cfa85ae1f7