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Science fiction films --- Robots in motion pictures. --- History and criticism.

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Des études sur l'impact de la présence, sur scène ou à l'écran, de marionnettes, robots ou autres objets animés, aux côtés des acteurs. Les contributeurs analysent la possibilité d'une compétition entre les deux ou d'une critique du comédien par l'artificiel, examinent l'éventuelle remise en question de l'humain par l'objet et se demandent si l'animé pourrait être plus apte à créer de la fiction. ©Electre 2020 Des spectacles scéniques et des récits filmiques faisant figurer marionnettes, objets animés et acteurs ensemble, que retenons-nous ? Ces situations de coprésence entre vivant et animé engagent des modèles fictionnels qui jouent sur les catégories du vrai et du vraisemblable, de l'artificiel et de l'imposture. Le robot, la marionnette critiquent-ils le comédien vivant ? En désignent-ils les failles et les habitudes ? L'amènent-ils à modifier son jeu ou le complètent-ils ? Aussi s'agit-il ici, en termes d'enjeux narratifs, d'interroger ce qu'il en est des représentations du comédien, de sa contestation ou de sa réévaluation.L'espace animé participe d'une querelle de légitimité qui convoque la capacité du spectateur à apprécier la nécessité, ou non, du jeu d'acteur dans les récits. Eternel rival du vivant, l'animé serait-il plus apte à générer des fictions ?

Acting --- Motion picture acting --- Toy theaters --- Puppets --- Performing arts --- Robots in motion pictures

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Why do we find artificial people fascinating? Drawing from a rich fictional and cinematic tradition, Anatomy of a Robot explores the political and textual implications of our perennial projections of humanity onto figures such as robots, androids, cyborgs, and automata. In an engaging, sophisticated, and accessible presentation, Despina Kakoudaki argues that, in their narrative and cultural deployment, artificial people demarcate what it means to be human. They perform this function by offering us a non-human version of ourselves as a site of investigation. Artificial people teach us that being human, being a person or a self, is a constant process and often a matter of legal, philosophical, and political struggle. By analyzing a wide range of literary texts and films (including episodes from Twilight Zone, the fiction of Philip K. Dick, Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go, Metropolis, The Golem, Frankenstein, The Terminator, Iron Man, Blade Runner, and I, Robot), and going back to alchemy and to Aristotle's Physics and De Anima, she tracks four foundational narrative elements in this centuries-old discourse- the fantasy of the artificial birth, the fantasy of the mechanical body, the tendency to represent artificial people as slaves, and the interpretation of artificiality as an existential trope. What unifies these investigations is the return of all four elements to the question of what constitutes the human. This focused approach to the topic of the artificial, constructed, or mechanical person allows us to reconsider the creation of artificial life. By focusing on their historical provenance and textual versatility, Kakoudaki elucidates artificial people's main cultural function, which is the political and existential negotiation of what it means to be a person.

Cyborgs in motion pictures. --- Robots in motion pictures. --- Cyborgs in literature. --- Robots in literature. --- Motion pictures --- Robotics in motion pictures --- Automata in literature --- mechanical body.

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“… Rebecca Gibson has given us this wonderful book that details how these technologies could have an even more profound influence—redefining that in us which is most human.” — Chris Irwin Davis, Ph.D., A.I. Research Scientist “Gibson’s book is a delightful and dirty look on what separates us from the machines, and exactly what those differences say about us if they even exist anymore.” —Jef Rouner, author of The Rook Circle “Well researched, engaging, and thought provoking, Dr. Gibson has given humanity a lot to consider when it comes to our desires and creations. A winning combination of entertaining and well documented information and analysis!” —Eli Girvin, Talent Analytics Strategy Consultant with IBM This book examines how science fiction’s portrayal of humanity’s desire for robotic companions influences and reflects changes in our actual desires. It begins by taking the reader on a journey that outlines basic human desires—in short, we are storytellers, and we need the objects of our desire to be able to mirror that aspect of our beings. This not only explores the reasons we seek out differences in our mates, but also why we crave sex and romance with robots. In creating a new species of potential companions, science fiction highlights what we already want and how our desires dictate—and are in return recreated— by what is written. But sex with robots is more than a sci-fi pop-culture phenomenon; it’s a driving force in the latest technological advances in cybernetic science. As such, this book looks at both what we imagine and what we can create in terms of the newest iterations of robotic companionship.

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