'What am I now if I'm not a father?': Fox Mulder's ageing masculinity in The X-Files. In Sara Martín & Michael Pitts, eds., Masculinities in Contemporary Science Fiction Television
Martín Alegre, Sara (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Filologia Anglesa i de Germanística)

Publicació:	London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025
Descripció:	111-125 pag.
Resum:	The X-Files (1993-2002), the popular show created by Chris Carter, returned in 2008 (with a second film), in 2016 with season 10 (six episodes) and again in 2018 with season 11 (ten episodes). In this chapter I consider the ageing male protagonist, Fox Mulder (supposedly born in 1961), with special attention to the alien invasion mythology and his love story with Dana Scully. My thesis is that the whole series can be summarized as the struggle between Mulder and his father, the villainous Cigarette-Smoking Man, for the possession of Scully's reproductive capacities. Seasons 10 and 11 narrate how the child William, whom Scully gave in adoption to protect him while Mulder was being hunted down (seasons 8 and 9), is in fact the villain's son and can thus be erased from their lives. When a devastated Mulder asks her 'What am I now if I'm not a father?', Scully replies that she is pregnant by him and as a result of natural sex, not an experiment. In this final episode, Scully is 54, which makes her pregnancy highly unlikely. Her baby, however, must be read as a vindication of Mulder's ageing masculinity (he's 57) over the deviant masculinities of his own old father (aged around 80) and even of young William (aged 17). The various conspiracies associated to the alien invaders, the hegemonic Syndicate, Mulder's father and even the apocalypse William and Scully have visions of, are swept aside in Carter's quest to vindicate Mulder's idiosyncratic masculinity, an endeavor which is ultimately the core of The X-Files.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Capítol de llibre ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Chris Carter ; Fox Mulder (character) ; The X-Files (series) ; Tv series ; fatherhood ; masculinity ; science fiction
Publicat a:	Masculinities in Contemporary Science Fiction Television, 2025 , ISBN 9781350458437

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