Mutants Androids And Aliens
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Mutants Androids And Aliens
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Author : James A. Tyner
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2025-05-19
Mutants Androids And Aliens written by James A. Tyner and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-19 with Performing Arts categories.
In both literature and film, mutants, androids, and aliens have long functioned as humanity’s Other—nonhuman bodies serving as surrogates to explore humanity’s prejudice, bigotry, and hatred. Scholars working in fields of feminism, ethnic studies, queer studies, and disability studies, among others, have deconstructed representations of the Othered body and the ways these fictional depictions provide insight into the contested terrains of identity, subjectivity, and personhood. In science fiction more broadly and the superhero genre in particular, the fictional Other—often a superhero or a villain—is juxtaposed against the normal human, and such Others have long been the subject of academic investigation. Author James A. Tyner shifts this scholarly focus to consider the ordinary humans who ally with or oppose Othered superheroes. Law enforcement officers, military officials, politicians, and the countless, nameless civilians are all examples of humans who try to make sense of a rapidly changing more-than-human and other-than-human universe. The resulting volume, Mutants, Androids, and Aliens: On Being Human in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, provides a critical posthumanist reading of being human in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Centering the MCU’s secondary human characters, including Matthew Ellis, Ellen Nadeer, Rosalind Price, as well as Jimmy Woo, Sadie Deever, Holden Radcliffe, and others, Tyner considers how these characters attempt to monitor, incarcerate, or exterminate those beings considered "unnatural" and thus threatening. Placing into conversation posthumanism, environmental ethics, and myriad philosophical and biological ontologies of life and death, Tyner maintains that the superhero genre reflects the current complexities of meaningful life—and of what happens in society when "the human" is no longer the unquestioned normative standard.
Gothic Music
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Author : Isabella Van Elferen
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2012-07-15
Gothic Music written by Isabella Van Elferen and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-15 with Music categories.
Gothic Music - The Sounds of the Uncanny traces sonic Gothic through history and genres from the eighteenth-century ghost story through the spooky soundtracks of cinema, television and video games to the dark music of the Goth subculture.
How To Draw Aliens Mutants And Mysterious Creatures
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Author : Christopher Hart
language : en
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
Release Date : 2001
How To Draw Aliens Mutants And Mysterious Creatures written by Christopher Hart and has been published by Watson-Guptill Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
Provides descriptions and color illustrations of a variety of aliens, mutants, and other mysterious creatures, and includes advice and instructions on how to draw them.
Beautiful Terrible Ruins
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Author : Dora Apel
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-23
Beautiful Terrible Ruins written by Dora Apel and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-23 with Art categories.
Once the manufacturing powerhouse of the nation, Detroit has become emblematic of failing cities everywhere—the paradigmatic city of ruins—and the epicenter of an explosive growth in images of urban decay. In Beautiful Terrible Ruins, art historian Dora Apel explores a wide array of these images, ranging from photography, advertising, and television, to documentaries, video games, and zombie and disaster films. Apel shows how Detroit has become pivotal to an expanding network of ruin imagery, imagery ultimately driven by a pervasive and growing cultural pessimism, a loss of faith in progress, and a deepening fear that worse times are coming. The images of Detroit’s decay speak to the overarching anxieties of our era: increasing poverty, declining wages and social services, inadequate health care, unemployment, homelessness, and ecological disaster—in short, the failure of capitalism. Apel reveals how, through the aesthetic distancing of representation, the haunted beauty and fascination of ruin imagery, embodied by Detroit’s abandoned downtown skyscrapers, empty urban spaces, decaying factories, and derelict neighborhoods help us to cope with our fears. But Apel warns that these images, while pleasurable, have little explanatory power, lulling us into seeing Detroit’s deterioration as either inevitable or the city’s own fault, and absolving the real agents of decline—corporate disinvestment and globalization. Beautiful Terrible Ruins helps us understand the ways that the pleasure and the horror of urban decay hold us in thrall.
Aliens Robots Virtual Reality Idols In The Science Fiction Of H P Lovecraft Isaac Asimov And William Gibson
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Author : John L. Steadman
language : en
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Release Date : 2020-10-30
Aliens Robots Virtual Reality Idols In The Science Fiction Of H P Lovecraft Isaac Asimov And William Gibson written by John L. Steadman and has been published by John Hunt Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
“Steadman’s comprehensive guide wrestles with the concept of the ‘alien’, applying cutting edge theoretical and philosophical ideas to the work of some of the greats of Science Fiction to arrive at a set of exciting new discoveries about what the genre says it means to be ‘human’. Reading Aliens, Robots and Virtual Reality Idols guarantees that you will never look at the writing of Lovecraft, Asimov or Gibson in the same way again.” --Dr David Simmons, Senior Lecturer in English and Screen Studies, University of Northampton H. P. Lovecraft's aliens are extra-terrestrial, terrestrial & trans-dimensional entities, totally unlike any other aliens in science fiction literature. In contrast, Isaac Asimov's and William Gibson's aliens are human created positronic robots and virtual reality constructs, or 'idols'. Lovecraft's great theme is alien indifferentism, tinged with a malevolence that escalates into an existential, apocalyptic threat against humankind, while for Asimov and Gibson, alien inclusionism is the norm. The robots and the VR idols integrate into society and their influence appears to be beneficial. But this is only on the surface. In this book, John L. Steadman demonstrates that there is ultimately little difference between alien indifferentism and alien inclusionism in the fictional works of these three great writers. For in fact, the robots and the VR idols evolve into monsters whose actions bring about outcomes which are every bit as terrifying as anything in Lovecraft's work. Humans tend to be isolates ('alien'-ated). The reader is invited to question this, and to consider the possibility that an alien perspective, or platform, might, perhaps, be crucial if we intend on seeing ourselves clearly and understanding exactly what it means to be human.
Theory Of Mind And Science Fiction
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Author : N. Pagan
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-01-06
Theory Of Mind And Science Fiction written by N. Pagan and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Theory of Mind and Science Fiction shows how theory of mind provides an exciting 'new' way to think about science fiction and, conversely, how science fiction sheds light not only on theory of mind but also empathy, morality, and the nature of our humanity.
Philip K Dick
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Author : Christopher Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2003-03-01
Philip K Dick written by Christopher Palmer and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Once the sole possession of fans and buffs, the SF author Philip K Dick is now finding a much wider audience, as the success of the films Blade Runner and Minority Report shows. The kind of world he predicted in his funny and frightening novels and stories is coming closer to most of us: shifting realities, unstable relations, uncertain moralities. Philip K Dick: Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern examines a wide range of Dick’s work, including his short stories and posthumously published realist novels. Christopher Palmer analyses the puzzling and dazzling effects of Dick’s fiction, and argues that at its heart is a clash between exhilarating possibilities of transformation, and a frightening lack of ethical certainties. Dick’s work is seen as the inscription of his own historical predicament, the clash between humanism and postmodernism being played out in the complex forms of the fiction. The problem is never resolved, but Dick’s ways of imagining it become steadily more ingenious and challenging.
Robots In Popular Culture
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Author : Richard A. Hall
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2021-07-12
Robots In Popular Culture written by Richard A. Hall and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-12 with Social Science categories.
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.
Popular Science
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-10
Popular Science written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10 with categories.
Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
Alien Invaders 5 Atomic The Radioactive Bomb
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Author : Max Silver
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-09-30
Alien Invaders 5 Atomic The Radioactive Bomb written by Max Silver and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-30 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Five awesome aliens have been unleashed from the darkest corner of the galaxy - and they're out to destroy the universe. Only Cosmo, a young boy from planet Earth, has the power to stop them. Recruited by the elite defence organisation G-Watch to defend the galaxy, Cosmo must prove himself and commence battle against the deadliest aliens in space . . . Cosmo's epic mission is nearly over - but now he must face the most terrifying invader of them all, the mighty Atomic. On the toxic planet of Abu, Cosmo and Nuri face many dangers on their search for Atomic - fighting their way through sinking mud, toxic swamps and radioactive beasts. Can Cosmo find the strength he needs to stop the evil Atomic, or could this final mission be his last . . .?