Cyborg cinema

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Cyborg cinema

Title:

Cyborg cinema

Author:

Short, Sue, 1968-

ISBN:

9780230302198

Personal Author:

Short, Sue, 1968-

Publication Information:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Physical Description:

xvi, 251 p. ; 24 cm.

General Note:

"First published in hardback in 2005" -- t.p. verso.

Contents:

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.

Subject Term:

Cyborgs in motion pictures.

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Summary

This book breaks new ground in providing an in-depth critical assessment of cyborg cinema, arguing that it remains one of the most intriguing and provocative cycles to have emerged in contemporary screen culture. Tracing the cinematic cyborg's transition over the last two decades and evaluating the theoretical significance attributed to this figure, it asks what relevance the cyborg continues to have in terms of understanding human identity, our relationship to technology, and to one another.