1st Edition
Cinema and the Dream of the Living Machine
218 Pages
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Routledge
Cinema and the Dream of the Living Machine offers a comprehensive critical history of artificial intelligence (AI) in Western cinema, tracing how films from Metropolis to contemporary science fiction transform technological anxiety into cultural fantasy.
Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, ideological critique, and close film analysis, the book examines how AI repeatedly appears as servant,... Read more
Preface 1: Cinema and the Dream of the Living Machine 2: Metropolis (1927) and the Birth of Cinematic AI 3: AI and the Emergence of Disembodied Authority 4: Embodied AI and the Emergence of the Drive Object 5: AI, Corporate Property and the Discipline of the Synthetic Subject 6: AI, Terminal Logic, and the End of the Human 8: AI and the Return of the Repressed 9: Appendix: Cinematic AI Fantasy Matrix Index
Biography
Joseph Zornado is Professor of English at Rhode Island College, USA
Sara Reilly is Adjunct Instructor and Assistant Director of Advising at Rhode Island College, USA
