Title Anatomy of a robot : literature, cinema, and the cultural work of artificial people / Despina Kakoudaki.

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New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London : Rutgers University Press, [2014]

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 256 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-243) and index.
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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Summary	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.
Subject	Robots in literature.
	Cyborgs in literature.
	Robots in motion pictures.
	Cyborgs in motion pictures.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- Science Fiction & Fantasy.
	Cyborgs in literature. (OCoLC)fst01201616
	Cyborgs in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst00885810
	Robots in literature. (OCoLC)fst01099078
	Robots in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01099079
	Robotar på film.
	Robotar i litteraturen.
	Sciencefictionfilm.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Kakoudaki, Despina. Anatomy of a robot 9780813562162 (DLC) 2013029877 (OCoLC)858914238
ISBN	9780813562179 (electronic bk.)
	0813562171 (electronic bk.)
	132211112X (electronic bk.)
	9781322111124 (electronic bk.)

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