Allison de Fren

Allison de Fren is a writer, professor and media scholar based in Los Angeles, California. Appointed in 2010, Dr. de Fren teaches new media theory and practice at Occidental College.

Her documentary film The Mechanical Bride examines the modern-day impulse of creating artificial humanistic dolls for sex and companionship.[1] It is narrated by Julie Newmar[2] with music composed by Rich Ragsdale and features interviews with people who own sex-dolls, engineers who create them, artists who depict them as well as information on historical automatons and female robots portrayed in cinema.[3] The film takes its title from the book of the same name by Marshall McLuhan.[4]

In 2010, the Science Fiction Research Association gave her the Pioneer Award for her essay “The Anatomical Gaze in Tomorrow’s Eve.”[5] She regularly publishes video essays on subjects related to technology, media representation and gender.[6][7][8]

She received her doctorate from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and has been awarded fellowships from the Annenberg Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the American Association of University Women.

References
  1. "The Pick: The Mechanical Bride, a new documentary about sex dolls (and the men who love them)". Toronto Life. 2012-05-02. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  2. The Mechanical Bride, retrieved 2019-11-24
  3. "The Mechanical Bride – A Film Homage to Marshall McLuhan's Book". McLuhan Galaxy. 2012-03-31. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  4. Thill, Scott (2012-04-27). "The Mechanical Bride Digs Into Technosexual Desire, Sci-Fi Fembots (NSFW)". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  5. "sfadb : Allison de Fren Awards". www.sfadb.com. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  6. "Fantastic Video Essays by Women and Where to Find Them". Film School Rejects. 2018-01-15. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  7. Stuart, Gwynedd (2019-03-20). "Why Are We Still So Obsessed with Sexy Fish People?". Los Angeles Magazine. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  8. "Fembot in a Red Dress | [in]Transition". mediacommons.org. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  • de Fren, Allison. "The Anatomical Gaze in Tomorrow's Eve." Science Fiction Studies (2009): 235-265.
  • de Fren, Allison. "Fembot in a Red Dress." Video Essay
  • de Fren, Allison. The Exquisite Corpse: Disarticulations of the Artificial Female (doctoral dissertation), 2008, ProQuest document ID 304460946.
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