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Robot Ecology and the Science Fiction Film (Paperback)
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Robot Ecology and the Science Fiction Film (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Focus on Film Studies
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This book offers the first specific application in film studies of
what is generally known as ecology theory, shifting attention from
history to the (in this case media) environment. It takes the robot
as its subject because it has attained a status that resonates not
only with some of the key concerns of contemporary culture over the
last century, but also with the very nature of film. While the
robot has given us a vehicle for exploring issues of gender, race,
and a variety of forms of otherness, and increasingly for asking
questions about the very nature and meaning of life, this image of
an artificial being, typically anthropomorphic, also invariably
implicates the cinema's own and quite fundamental artificing of the
human. Looking across genres, across specific media forms, and
across closely linked conceptualizations, Telotte sketches a
context of interwoven influences and meanings. The result is that
this study of the cinematic robot, while mainly focused on science
fiction film, also incorporates its appearance in, for example,
musicals, cartoons, television, advertising, toys, and literature.
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