Intellect

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Authors:  Tom O’Connor 
DOI: 10.1386/host.1.1.111/1

Keywords
Gilles Deleuze,Becoming-woman,Michael Almereyda,Nadja Vampires,The Eternal

Abstract
The philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari chose the term Becoming-woman to signify our desire to continually and productively transform ourselves as well as an ever-evolving, contingent world. They picked this particular term because women’s possibilities have not been completely territorialized in an aesthetic or philosophical sense (even when they’re codified in a bourgeois sense). Becoming-woman is thus radically different from most mainstream, filmic portrayals of both men and women’s possibilities. In this article, I flesh out how the two female protagonists from the horror films Nadja (1994) and The Eternal (1998), both written and directed by Michael Almereyda, self-create their own powers of Becoming-woman for transformative personal as well as cultural effects.