The politics of perfection : technology and creation in literature and film /

This book explores the relationship between modern technological progress and classical liberalism. The compatibility of classical liberalism and technology is questioned, using fiction and film as a window into Western society's views on politics, economics, religion, technology, and the famil...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hale, Kimberly Hurd, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]
Colección:Politics, literature, & film.
Temas:
Technology in literature.
Technology in motion pictures.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) in literature.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) in motion pictures.
Liberalism in literature.
Politics and literature.
Technologie dans la littérature.
Technologie au cinéma.
Création (Arts) dans la littérature.
Libéralisme dans la littérature.
Politique et littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) in literature
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) in motion pictures
Liberalism in literature
Politics and literature
Technology in literature
Technology in motion pictures
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Perfecting the human
  • The City divided: Fritz Lang's Metropolis
  • Of gods and robots: Ridley Scott's Prometheus
  • The politics of remembering: Michael Gondry's Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
  • The price of immortality: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go and natural rights in a cloned world
  • Shiny people, happy people: saving the world from mankind in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and crake
  • Self-guided evolution or self-destruction?

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