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Representing insect sexualities in Life in the Undergrowth and Green Porno
The Communication Review Pub Date : 2018-04-03 , DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2018.1474049
Shoshana Magnet 1
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ABSTRACT What does it mean to represent insect sexualities? What are the technologies that one uses to make insect bodies visible? In this article, I examine two series in order to examine representations of insect sexualities. In the documentary Life in the Undergrowth, famed British broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough’s hushed tones tell us that new technologies of seeing are making new worlds visible. In the second, Isabella Rossellini stars in the series Green Porno, in which she uses biologically accurate costumes to blow up insect bodies to human size, using the costumes as technologies of seeing to help her audience visualize how insects have sex. Here, the costumes themselves become ways of knowing insect bodies while simultaneously rendering them as spectacular media moments. I rely upon feminist media studies of representations of wildlife to ask how assumptions around gender and sexuality continue to shape contemporary depictions of the insect world in Sir David Attenborough’s series Life in the Undergrowth, whereas I argue that Green Porno represents a queering of traditional documentaries on insects and examine what possibilities this might provide us with for rethinking insect sexualities—from monogamy and heterosexual reproduction to S/M, queer sex, and polyamory.

中文翻译:

在灌木丛中和绿色色情中代表昆虫的性行为

摘要 代表昆虫的性别是什么意思?使昆虫尸体可见的技术是什么?在这篇文章中,我考察了两个系列,以考察昆虫性行为的表现。在纪录片 Life in the Undergrowth 中,著名的英国广播公司兼博物学家大卫·阿滕伯勒爵士用沉静的语气告诉我们,新的视觉技术正在让新世界变得可见。在第二部中,伊莎贝拉·罗西里尼 (Isabella Rossellini) 出演了《绿色色情》系列,在该剧中,她使用生物学上准确的服装将昆虫身体炸成人类大小,并利用服装作为视觉技术帮助观众想象昆虫如何发生性行为。在这里,服装本身成为了解昆虫身体的方式,同时将它们呈现为壮观的媒体时刻。
更新日期:2018-04-03
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