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, as well as our relationship to technology and to one another.

Sue Short examines how fairy tale tropes have been reworked in contemporary film, identifying familiar themes in a range of genres - including rom coms, crime films and horror - and noting key similarities and differences between the source narratives and their offspring.

This timely study breaks new ground in exploring how recent film and television horror texts articulate a female rite of passage, updating the cautionary concerns found in fairy tales of the past, particularly in warning against predatory men, treacherous females and unhappy family situations.

The papers in Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Social Exclusion represent the most current research on poverty, deprivation, and income mobility. They illustrate the multidimensionality of poverty that is difficult to capture in any one measure. The volume presents state-of-the-art research that is relevant to poverty academics globally. The papers use a variety of methods that measure the persistence of poverty over time and cover numerous countries and circumstances. A selection of papers focus on single countries while others include comparisons of countries. The volume begins with a set of papers that examine particular groups that are most vulnerable to poverty and deprivation in a variety of places. These include measuring the persistence of poverty of immigrant children in Scandinavian countries. Finally the volume concludes with papers that analyze the relationships of two or more measures together to further elucidate what we know if we have only one measure of poverty.

What are cyborgs? How have they been represented in cinema? And why have they generated such an astonishing degree of critical and popular interest? These are the questions that underpin this book. It asks what relevance the cyborg has in exploring the nature of human identity, questioning our relationship to technology and speculating on envisaged prospects for the future. It also goes beyond other work in the field by not only evaluating individual texts but addressing what cyborg films have in common, acknowledging the development they have undergone over the last thirty years, and speculating on the reasons for this transition. The cinematic cyborg's continued appeal is testified by the decision to revive the "Terminator "franchise as well as other releases that similarly explore 'posthuman' potential, including the "X-Men" films, "the Matrix" trilogy, "Iron Man" and "Avatar." In referencing such titles and the legacy they draw upon, this study is not only the most up-to-date analysis of cyborgs and their variants in film, but also the first book to comprehensively assess cyborg cinema as both an important sub-genre of SF and a definitive cycle in its own right. Fully revised and updated since its initial publication in 2005, this paperback edition also includes reference to the cyborg's transition to television, comparing "Star Trek's" Borg with "Battlestar Galactica's" Cylons, as well as discussing series such as "Bionic Woman, The Sarah Connor Chronicles" and "Dollhouse" in order to assess the continued fascination held by fictional cyborgs, their contribution to our sense of subjectivity, and the way they reflect a host of contemporary concerns.

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.

This timely study breaks new ground in exploring how recent film and television horror texts articulate a female rite of passage, updating the cautionary concerns found in fairy tales of the past, particularly in warning against predatory men, treacherous females and unhappy family situations.

There are many different divisions of the United States Census Bureau. Within these, countless studies and a lot of research is taking place. This paper is a working paper written by a staff member of the Social, Economic and Housing Statistics Division. It was designed for discussion regarding the topic.