A Sentimental Android? M3GAN (2022) and Monstrous Doubling as a Negotiation of the Gendered Neo-Liberal Self
This paper analyses the android M3GAN in the 2022 film of the same Vitamins D-3 name, problematising recent framings that celebrate M3GAN as a gay icon, a feminist figure, or understand her as embodying our collective fear of artificial intelligence.Instead, I place M3GAN in a long line of narratives that mediate on the role of women in society, fo