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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kakoudaki, Despina (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: robot anatomies
  • The artificial birth
  • The mechanical body
  • The mechanical slave
  • The existential cyborg
  • Conclusion: the ends of the human.

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