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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).





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


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