Putting Women In Their Place: “Family” as Strategy in the Cold War in The Thing from Another World (1951)
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The science fiction/horror film The Thing from Another World directed by Christian Nyby/Howard Hawks was made in 1951. The basic idea is to discuss how to define the boundary of the human and the alien. However, the minor female character is more intriguing, since there is the doubleness between the woman and the alien monster in the perspective of patriarchal system. Furthermore the society of the 1950s is trying to revive people’s faith in the “cult of true womanhood,” since during the World War II when men go to the front, the society encourages women to step out of the domestic sphere and enter the job market to show their patriotism. While after the war, the society begins to emphasize the traditional family value which the woman should value the most in her life so that she can retreat from the society and give jobs back to the veterans. So in this essay, I intend to discuss that in order to balance the power relationship between the gender and maintain the leading position, the man includes/excludes the woman in terms of work, marriage and family by comparing the monster with/to the woman.
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The science fiction/horror film The Thing from Another World directed by Christian Nyby/Howard Hawks was made in 1951. The basic idea is to discuss how to define the boundary of the human and the alien. However, the minor female character is more intriguing, since there is the doubleness between the woman and the alien monster in the perspective of patriarchal system. Furthermore the society of the 1950s is trying to revive people’s faith in the “cult of true womanhood,” since during the World War II when men go to the front, the society encourages women to step out of the domestic sphere and enter the job market to show their patriotism. While after the war, the society begins to emphasize the traditional family value which the woman should value the most in her life so that she can retreat from the society and give jobs back to the veterans. So in this essay, I intend to discuss that in order to balance the power relationship between the gender and maintain the leading position, the man includes/excludes the woman in terms of work, marriage and family by comparing the monster with/to the woman.
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