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Allison de Fren

アリソン・ド・フレン

Arison do Fren

Profile

Gender
Female
Nationality
American
Languages
English
Residence History
Los Angeles, California

Career

Occupations
writer, professor, media scholar
Active Years
2009-
Affiliations
Occidental College

Education

University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts
Degree: PhD
Country: United States

Awards

SFRA Pioneer Award
2010
Work: The Anatomical Gaze in Tomorrow’s Eve
Organization: Science Fiction Research Association
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Mechanical Bride

2012 Documentary film

Her documentary film The Mechanical Bride examines the modern-day impulse of creating artificial humanistic dolls for sex and companionship. It is narrated by Julie Newmar with music composed by Rich Ragsdale and features interviews with people who own sex-dolls, engineers who create them, artists who depict them as well as information on historical automatons and female robots portrayed in cinema.

sex dollstechnology and humanitymedia representation

The Anatomical Gaze in Tomorrow’s Eve

2009 Critical essay 31 pages
Science fictiongendertechnology

Bibliography

  • de Fren, Allison. "The Anatomical Gaze in Tomorrow's Eve." Science Fiction Studies (2009): 235–265.