Anatomy of a Robot : Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People /

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Why do we find artificial people fascinating? Drawing from a rich fictional and cinematic tradition, Anatomy of a Robot explores the political and textual implications of our perennial projections of humanity onto figures such as robots, androids, cyborgs, and automata. In an engaging, sophisticated...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kakoudaki, Despina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sciencefictionfilm.
Robotar i litteraturen.
Robotar på film.
Robots in motion pictures.
Robots in literature.
Cyborgs in motion pictures.
Cyborgs in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Science Fiction & Fantasy.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Cyborgs au cinema.
Cyborgs dans la litterature.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Why do we find artificial people fascinating? Drawing from a rich fictional and cinematic tradition, Anatomy of a Robot explores the political and textual implications of our perennial projections of humanity onto figures such as robots, androids, cyborgs, and automata. In an engaging, sophisticated, and accessible presentation, Despina Kakoudaki argues that, in their narrative and cultural deployment, artificial people demarcate what it means to be human. They perform this function by offering us a non-human version of ourselves as a site of investigation. Artificial people teach us that bein.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (272 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780813562179

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