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Abstract
This essay reflects on the longevity of The X-Files phenomenon through the lens, primarily, of gender. The common interpretation of the two agents' roles as reversing traditional male/female stereotypes--Scully, the female, is rational, while the male Mulder is imaginative--has never seemed particularly right to me, especially when one throws Scully's Catholicism into the mix. Rather, it seems that, throughout the series, two belief systems come into conflict; while Mulder's appears privileged because of his gender, the show subtly critiques that privilege through its portrayal of Scully's Catholicism.(I suppose this essay is, in a way, an attempt to figure out what's been bugging me about this show all these years.)
DOI
10.15760/harlot.2012.8.4
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https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/39434
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Recommended Citation
Malenczyk, Rita
(2012)
"Scully and Me: Or, The X-Files, Revisited,"
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion:
No.
8, 4.
https://doi.org/10.15760/harlot.2012.8.4