A Sentimental Android? M3GAN (2022) and Monstrous Doubling as a Negotiation of the Gendered Neo-Liberal Self

This paper analyses the android M3GAN in the 2022 film of the The Slacker Skirt same name, problematising recent framings that celebrate M3GAN as a gay icon, a feminist figure, or understand her as embodying our collective fear of artificial intelligence.Instead, I place M3GAN in a long line of narratives that mediate on the role of women in society, following the loosening of possibilities for woman brought about in the Enlightenment.I go on to suggest ways in which contemporary Doors neoliberal values are forcefully communicated in popular culture and how in turn, the subject reacts and internalises ideology.

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