A fascinating and illuminating analysis of The Terminator films, examining and revealing both the gender politics and shifts in sexuality contemporary with the series production. Greven also demonstrates how these changes shape the subliminal and metaphorical undertones of the films and their plots. * Journal of Gender Studies * Queering the Terminator provides a lively, compelling exploration of the "un-likeliness of desire," showing that mainstream texts do speak to queers even when apparently not doing so. Rereading the Terminator films and television series for their fetishistic emphases and in light of their cultural and historical contexts, David Greven finds male vulnerability, feminist strength, fascist masculinity, pedophilic attraction, and gender-fluid sexuality all on display, alongside the series' more obvious preoccupations with time travel, trauma, the heterosexual couple, and the child. An innovative and welcome addition to the already considerable scholarship about this globally influential media franchise. * Chris Holmlund, author of Impossible Bodies and Female Trouble, and the editor or co-editor of Between the Sheets, In the Streets: Queer, Lesbian, Gay Documentary, Contemporary American Independent Film, American Film of the 1990s, and The Ultimate Stallone Reader * This knowledgeable and engaging look at the Terminator saga offers new, sometimes surprising, perspectives. Examining the entire film canon to date and including the TV series, Greven works outward from his own viewing experience, providing a skilful unpicking of the contexts and contradictions of the iconic science fiction series. * Lorna Jowett, Reader in Television Studies, the University of Northampton, UK *
