Awards

• Winner of LJ Best Reference of 2021 2022

Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Richard A. Hall
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 17.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9798765130988

Pages:   360
Publication Date:   22 August 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Educational: Primary & Secondary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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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

Reviews

Fun, thought-provoking examination of contemporary society's use of robots and the continual evolution of AI and robotics. * Library Journal *

Author Information

Richard A. Hall, PhD, is author of The American Superhero: Encyclopedia of Caped Crusaders in History; Pop Goes the Decade: The Seventies; The American Villain: Encyclopedia of Bad Guys in Comics, Film, and Television; and Pop Goes the Decade: The 2000s. He lives in Laredo, TX.

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