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