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Projecting the Shadow

The Cyborg Hero in American Film

Autor: Janice Rushing, Thomas Frentz

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Editura: The University of Chicago Press

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Part human, part machine, the cyborg is the hero of an increasingly popular genre of American film a...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Janice Rushing, Thomas Frentz

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

1995

Pagini

269

EAN

9780226731674

ISBN

0226731677

Enbook ID

04548977

Editura

The University of Chicago Press

Greutate

425

Dimensiuni

154 x 227 x 2

Descriere completă

Part human, part machine, the cyborg is the hero of an increasingly popular genre of American film and a cultural icon emblematic of an emergent postmodern mythology. Using the cyborg film as a point of departure, the authors examine how we rework Western myths and initiation rites in the face of new technologies. Through in-depth examinations of six representative films - "Jaws", "The Deer Hunter", "The Manchurian Candidate", "Blade Runner", "The Terminator", and "Terminator 2" - the authors track the narrative's thread from the hunter to his technological nemesis, demonstrating how each film represents an unfolding hunter myth. For each movie, Rushing and Frentz show how uninitiated male hunters slowly lose control over their weapons. In "Jaws", a "soft" man, dominated by technology, can re-acquire the heroic hunter qualities he needs by teaming up with a "savage" man and a "technological" man. In doing so, he can still conquer the prey. "The Manchurian Candidate" charts how technology can turn a human into a weapon; "Blade Runner" perfects the artificial human with its manufactured replicants who are "more than human"; and "The Terminator" introduces a female hunter who leads humanity in its struggle against technology.