Through Alien “Eyes”: Spectacle Mediating Nonhuman Agency in Nope (2022)

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dc.contributor.advisorAlaimo, Stacy
dc.contributor.authorGekiere, Kathleen
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-10T14:28:28Z
dc.date.issued2024-01-10
dc.description.abstractAs horse trainers, a former child star and a mysterious UFO clash in the Agua Dulce desert, Jordan Peele’s Nope (2022), replete with nonhuman actors, presents a generative model for considering the possibilities and constraints of non-human representations within media. Weaving frameworks established by Derrida, De Bord and Benjamin, I analyze the ways in which nonhuman beings are shaped and molded into images for consumption, as well as their resistance to this control. As the forces of Hollywood production clash with the gazes of nonhuman beings, Nope points toward avenues to disrupt the aesthetically captivating distractions of capitalism and the destructive impulses they inspire, highlighting the possibilities of nonhuman agents as forces of disruption and interruption of systems of exploitation.en_US
dc.description.embargo2025-07-26
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/29229
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectEcocriticismen_US
dc.subjectFilm Studiesen_US
dc.subjectNonhuman beingsen_US
dc.subjectRepresentationen_US
dc.subjectScience Fictionen_US
dc.subjectSpectacleen_US
dc.titleThrough Alien “Eyes”: Spectacle Mediating Nonhuman Agency in Nope (2022)
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of English
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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