Resisting the others: Gender, multiculturalism, and social identity in "Alien Resurrection"

Despite increasing racial diversity, the growth of multicultural awareness, and constantly changing ideas regarding gender roles in the United States, some Hollywood films still, directly and indirectly, stereotype "others" via images. Through methods of ideological film criticism, genre analysis of the science fiction film, some feminist theory and psychoanalysis, and the theory of the cyborg, this thesis argues that the Hollywood film Alien Resurrection is a cultural text which promotes racism, sexism, and Eurocentrism. Various film techniques, narrative elements, characters along with their development, and other aspects of the film serve to stereotype and confine those with multiple social identities.