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    Robots in Popular Culture: Androids and Cyborgs in the American Imagination

    Robots in Popular Culture by Hall, Richard A.;

    Androids and Cyborgs in the American Imagination

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    • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
    • Date of Publication 22 August 2024
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9798765130988
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages pages
    • Size 254x176x22 mm
    • Weight 660 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 25 bw illus
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    Robots in Popular Culture: Androids and Cyborgs in the American Imagination seeks to provide one go-to reference for the study of the most popular and iconic robots in American popular culture.

    In the last 10 years, technology and artificial intelligence (AI) have become not only a daily but a minute-by-minute part of American life-more integrated into our lives than anyone would have believed even a generation before. Americans have long known the adorable and helpful R2-D2 and the terrible possibilities of Skynet and its army of Terminators. Throughout, we have seen machines as valuable allies and horrifying enemies. Today, Americans cling to their mobile phones with the same affection that Luke Skywalker felt for the squat R2-D2. Meanwhile, our phones, personal computers, and cars have attained the ability to know and learn everything about us.

    This volume opens with essays about robots in popular culture, followed by 100 A-Z entries on the most famous AIs in film, comics, and more. Sidebars highlight ancillary points of interest, such as authors, creators, and tropes that illuminate the motives of various robots. The volume closes with a glossary of key terms and a bibliography providing students with resources to continue their study of what robots tell us about ourselves.

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface
    Chronology of Milestone Events
    Introduction
    Thematic Essays
    Robots and Slavery
    Heroic Robots and Their Impact on Sci-Fi Narratives
    Villainous Robots and Their Impact on Sci-Fi Narratives
    Cyborgs: Robotic Humans or Organic Robots?
    AI and the Apocalypse: Science Fiction Meeting Science Fact
    A-Z Entries
    Adam
    Al/Ziggy
    Alita
    Androids
    Arnim Zola
    AWESOM-O 4000
    Batcomputer
    B.A.T.s (Battle Android Troopers)
    Battle Droids
    Baymax
    BB-8
    Bender
    Bernard
    Bishop
    Borg
    Brainiac
    Buffybot
    C-3PO
    Cambot/Gypsy/Tom Servo/Crow
    Cerebro/Cerebra
    Control
    Cybermen
    Cyborg
    Cylons
    Daleks
    Darth Vader
    D-O
    Doctor Octopus
    Doctor/EMH (Emergency Medical Hologram Mark I)
    Dolores
    Doombots
    Dr. Theopolis and Twiki
    Echo/CT-1409
    ED-209
    EV-9D9
    Fembots
    General Grievous
    The Great Intelligence
    HAL 9000
    HERBIE
    Human Torch
    IG-88/IG-11
    Inspector Gadget
    Iron Giant
    Iron Legion
    Iron Man
    Jaime Sommers
    Janet
    JARVIS/Friday
    Jocasta
    Johnny 5/S.A.I.N.T. Number 5
    K-2SO
    K9
    KITT
    L3-37/Millennium Falcon
    Landru
    Lieutenant Commander Data
    LMDs (Life Model Decoys)
    Lore/B4
    Marvin the Paranoid Android
    Maschinenmensch/Maria
    The Matrix/Agent Smith
    Max Headroom
    Mechagodzilla
    Medical Droids
    Metalhead
    Metallo
    Muffit
    Nardole
    OASIS
    Oz
    R2-D2
    Rehoboam
    Replicants
    Robby the Robot
    RoboCop
    Robot
    Robots
    Rosie
    Sentinels
    Skynet
    Soji and Dahj Asha
    Speed Buggy
    Starfleet Computer
    Stepford Wives
    Steve Austin
    TARDIS
    Terminators
    Teselecta
    Tin Woodsman
    Transformers
    Ultron
    V-GER
    VICI
    Vision
    Voltron
    WALL-E
    Warlock
    WOPR
    Zordon/Alpha-5
    Glossary
    Bibliography
    About the Author and Contributors
    Index

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