Research Catalog

Title

Cyborg cinema and contemporary subjectivity / Sue Short.

Author

Short, Sue, 1968-

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Details

Description

p. cm.

Summary

"What are cyborgs? How have they been represented in cinema? And why have they generated such an astonishing degree of critical interest? These are the questions that underpin this book. It asks what relevance the cyborg has in exploring the nature of human identity, questioning our relationship to technology, and speculating on envisaged prospects for the future. It also goes beyond other work in the field by not only evaluating individual texts, but addressing what cyborg films have in common, acknowledging the development they have undergone over the last twenty years, and speculating on the reasons for this transition. This study is not only the most up-to-date analysis of cyborgs, and their variants, in film, but also the first to comprehensively assess cyborg cinema as both an important sub-genre of science fiction, and a definitive cycle in its own rights."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Cyborgs in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Filmography: p.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Cycles, sub-genres and cyborg cinema -- 2. Body and soul : a history of cyborg theory -- 3. Food for Moloch : the cyborg as worker -- 4. The synthetic female : cyborgs and the inscription of gender -- 5. The best of both worlds? : hybridity, humanity and the other -- 6. Heart and hearth : the cyborg and family values -- 7. Reality unplugged : postmodernism, posthumanism and the cyborg -- 8. Summing up the cyborg : towards a conclusion.

ISBN

1403921784

LCCN

2004053939^^

OCLC

• 55644957
• SCSB-12050356

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library