My Fair Ladies : Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves /

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Taking us on a fascinating tour across a wide variety of media, from sci-fi films to underwear ads, My Fair Ladies introduces us to a bevy of lifelike, manmade women, from automatons to artificial intelligent robots. Julie Wosk considers how this figure of the "perfect woman" has come to e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wosk, Julie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Kvinnor i konsten.
Kvinnor i filmen.
Women in art.
Technology and women.
Human body and technology.
Anthropomorphism in art.
Androids in art.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
ART > Subjects & Themes > General.
Corps humain et technologie.
Femmes et technologie.
Androïdes dans l'art.
Anthropomorphisme dans l'art.
Femmes dans l'art.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Simulated women and the Pygmalion myth
  • Mechanical Galateas : female automatons and dolls
  • Mannequins, masks, monsters, and dolls : film and art in the 1920s and 1930s
  • Simulated women in television and films 1940s and after
  • Engineering the perfect woman
  • Dancing with robots and women in robotics design
  • The woman artist as Pygmalion.

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