Imagining slaves and robots in literature, film, and popular culture : reinventing yesterday's slave with tomorrow's robot /

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Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture: Reinventing Yesterday's Slave with Tomorrow's Robot is an interdisciplinary study that seeks to investigate and speculate about the relationship between technology and human nature through popular culture. Imagining Slav...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hampton, Gregory Jerome, 1968-2019 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]
Temas:
Technology > Social aspects.
Technology in popular culture.
Slavery > Social aspects.
Slavery in art.
Androids > Social aspects.
Androids in art.
Technologie dans la culture populaire.
Androïdes > Aspect social.
Androïdes dans l'art.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Reading the writing on the wall
  • Racing robots and making slaves : how the past informs the future
  • Proslavery thought and the black robot : selling household appliances to Southern belles
  • The true cult of humanhood : displacing repressed sexuality onto mechanical bodies
  • The tragic mulatto and the android : imitations of life in literature and on the silver screen
  • AI (artificial identity) : the new negro
  • From Fritz Lang to Janelle Monae : black robots singing and dancing
  • Conclusion : When the revolution comes.

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