Title
Counter-imagination as interpretive practice: Futuristic fantasy and the fifth element
Abstract
This essay concerns the relationship between popular cinematic visions of the future and present day identity politics. We argue that despite its futuristic setting celebrating technological progress and multiculturalism. Luc Besson's 1997 film The Fifth Element constructs sexual and racial difference in a manner that privileges and naturalizes White heterosexual masculinity. The essay offers counter-imagination as an interpretive practice that destabilizes the categories of sexual and racial difference as they are negotiated within appeals to popular imagination.
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2004.10162471
Publication Date
1-1-2004
Recommended Citation
Ott, Brian L., and Eric Aoki. "Counter-imagination as interpretive practice: Futuristic fantasy and The Fifth Element." Women's Studies in Communication 27, no. 2 (2004): 149-176.
Journal Title
Women's Studies in Communication
