RAT 9 - AI and Fembots

Science Fiction is a genre that presents ideas about sex and gender that are controversial in the present day and sets them in future and unfamiliar contexts

true

Science Fiction films have traditional offered alternative forms of sexuality and/or gender identities.

true

The same word fits in both blanks. The female robot's sexuality represents a dangerous power, which is frightening and must be _________, however, the mechanical female cannot be easily _________

destroyed

Cyborgs appearing in many films from the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century cannot be read as key figures for the exploration of new values ascribed to gender.

false

Due to the highest technology and latest scientific advances, the creation of spaces such as virtual reality, the Internet or cyberspace, has allowed for the representation of a genderless human body, conceived as pure ___________.

information

Science Fiction creates images of the Other which can be metaphors for threats to traditional social ___________

order

Postmodern thought has influenced the way the genre deals with boundary breaking and we are offered computer-simulated spaces where the frontier between the real and the imaginary is blurred, affecting the characters' identities and the way gender is depicted on screen.

true