Anatomy of a robot : literature, cinema, and the cultural work of artificial people /

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Author / Creator:	Kakoudaki, Despina, author.
Imprint:	New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 256 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Robots in literature. Cyborgs in literature. Robots in motion pictures. Cyborgs in motion pictures. Cyborgs in literature. Cyborgs in motion pictures. Robots in literature. Robots in motion pictures. Electronic books. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11236856

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ISBN:	9780813562179 0813562171 132211112X 9781322111124 9780813562162 0813562163 9780813562155 0813562155
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-243) and index. English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Kakoudaki, Despina. Anatomy of a robot 9780813562162
Standard no.:	10.36019/9780813562179

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