7Queer and Trans World-building in Sense8
In contrast to the traditionally structured and normatively disciplined Killing Eve, this section focuses on queer and trans world-building in the Netflix series Sense8 and how the Wachowskis radically reimagine paradigmatic conventions of genre, character, and narrative structure.
Lilly and Lana Wachowski began their careers as comic book writers who shifted into cinema when their script for Carnivore (a dystopian sci-fi horror about eating the rich) landed them an agent. They then made their first feature—the masterful neo-noir lesbian thriller Bound (1996)—on a shoe-string budget to prove they could helm a studio film. Following Bound, they made cinema history via the ...
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