Robots in American popular culture /
They are invincible warriors of steel, silky-skinned enticers, stealers of jobs and lovable goofball sidekicks. Legions of robots and androids star in the dream factories of Hollywood and leer on pulp magazine covers, instantly recognizable icons of American popular culture. For two centuries, we ha...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jezik: | engleski |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland and Company, Inc.,
2019.
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| Online pristup: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2179536 |
Sadržaj:
- Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part One: The Robot Pre-Computer; 1. The Robot and the Android: The Origin of the Species; 2. The Heimlich Maneuver: Robots in Early Fiction; 3. Is It Mechanism or Soul? Robots on the Stage; 4. The Wonderful Walking Mechanical Men; 5. "Quiet, Please-I'm Talking": The Westinghouse Family of Robots; 6. Iron Monster Turns Traitor: Amateur Robots; 7. Buck, Flash, Tillie and Mickey: Robots in Comic Strips; 8. A Tribe of Living Mechanical Men! Robots in Comic Books; 9. Utterly Alien and Nonhuman: The Robot in Golden Age Science Fiction
- 10. The Automaton! Robots in MoviesPart Two: The Robot Post-Computer; 11. Robots as Camp; 12. Robots and Kids; 13. Robots as Androids; 14. Robots as Sexbots; 15. Robots as Enemies; 16. Robots, Robots Everywhere; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index