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. It is narrated
by Julie Newmar 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. The film takes its
title from the book of the same name by Marshall McLuhan.In 2010, the
Science Fiction Research Association gave her the Pioneer Award for
her essay “The Anatomical Gaze in Tomorrow’s Eve.†She regularly
publishes video essays on subjects related to technology, media
representation and gender.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.
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. It is narrated
by Julie Newmar 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. The film takes its
title from the book of the same name by Marshall McLuhan.In 2010, the
Science Fiction Research Association gave her the Pioneer Award for
her essay “The Anatomical Gaze in Tomorrow’s Eve.†She regularly
publishes video essays on subjects related to technology, media
representation and gender.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.
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