Artificial Humans: Manic Machines--Controlled Bodies; Editor: Aurich, Rolf; Author: Essay by Kreimeier, Klaus; Hardback; Book

Editor: Aurich, Rolf; Author: Essay by Kreimeier, Klaus
Hardback; Book; 11 Colour and 38 B&w Illustrations
128 pages
Published: September 2000
Jovis Verlagsburo
ISBN: 3931321266
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These days it's not only science fiction that's filled with cyborgs -- every aspect of popular culture, contemporary critical theory and literature, and even our real lives are everywhere penetrated by androids, alien creatures, virtual celebrities, and others simulacra. A collection of essays on the figure of the cyborg in contemporary film and culture, Artificial Humans examines such classics of the genre as Frankenstein, Bladerunner, Robocop, the Alien series, and the two Terminator films, and also touches on issues of artificial intelligence and virtual reality. With plenty of film stills and behind-the-scenes commentary from filmmakers like James Cameron and Ridley Scott, Artificial Humans combines the qualities of a film book, a cultural studies text, and a work of scienceThis study offers a view of fabricated reality from gene technology to virtuality. It deals with plagiarisms and their cinematic-technological reality and looks at texts from literature and film covering reproduction and artificial intelligence, for example R2D2, the Terminator and Lara Croft.