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Species (film)

I've listed this article for peer review because, as it stands, it's fairly substantive and I personal am a fan of this movie (my guilty pleasure, I must say). Since it has already been promoted to GA, I would now like to bring it first to the A-class and then FA. To do so, I need help from the experts (horror buffs and non-horror buffs alike) to provide me notes in order to attain comprehensiveness criteria, ranging from Themes to Reception. I have access to audio commentaries for this movie so I might be able to do something with the artice; meanwhile, this PR is open for anybody who is interested in helping me.

Thanks, Slightlymad 08:59, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Academic sources

I'm repeating what was said on my talk page here in case you didn't get my reply. In looking for academic sources, Species didn't have a whole lot of material written about it to begin with, especially when compared to a film like Alien. But I did locate 3 dissertations, one of them being a doctoral thesis. These usually take up to a year to write and are typically hundreds of pages long. They are arguably the best academic sources a person could hope for. This particular one was for a doctorate in Philosophy. Here's one passage:

SIL's own desire to reproduce is conflated with the clerk's obviously pregnant body in a brief but significant point-of-view shot from SIL, focusing on the woman's belly, which then immediately cuts to a reaction shot of SIL's face. A brief look of silent understanding passes between the two women and the viewer is asked to identify/conflate the two women through their own looks of mutual recognition. This mirroring and resulting recognition is not a case of Lacanian misrecognition and loss. Rather, this look serves, in the Bakhtinian sense, as a form of mutual authoring, a dialogical intersection of the frontiers between selves.

Dr. Bjornsson's doctoral thesis, which covered the movie Species as part of a broader look at the topic of American narratives concerning outsider goups like women and immigrants, is just under 70 pages long and starts on page 154 (pdf reader page 158).

• Bjornsson, Nina Gudrun (1999). "Terminal Visibility in the Reproductive Zone: Species and the California-Mexico Connection" (PDF). Aliens Within: Immigrants, the Feminine, and American National Narrative (Ph.D. thesis). Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona. pp. 154–223. Document No.9927491 – via ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.

• Gutierrez, Osiel (2001). "Species". The Horrifying Transformation of the Female Monster (Master's thesis). San Jose, CA: San Jose State University. pp. 63–66, 105–109. Document No.1403970 – via ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.

• James, Cara Lyn (August 1996). Hideous Progeny: 'Frankenstein' and the Female Monster in Science Fiction (Master's thesis). Halifax, Nova Scotia: Dalhousie University. pp. 17–20. Document No.MM15914 – via ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.

Spintendo ᔦᔭ 04:43, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

References

Thanks Spintendo, but I read your reply already. Slightlymad 04:50, 24 January 2018 (UTC)