Explores the cultural significance of androids.
The Melancholy Android is a psychological study of the impulses behind the creation of androids. Exploring three imaginative figures-the mummy, the golem, and the automaton-and their appearances in myth, religion, literature, and film, Eric G. Wilson tracks the development of android-building and examines the lure of artificial doubles untroubled by awareness of self.
Drawing from the works of philosophers Ficino, Kleist, Freud, and Jung; writers Goethe, Coleridge, Shelley, and Poe; and movies such as Metropolis, The Mummy, and Blade Runner, this book not only offers a range of sites from which to analyze the relationship between mind and machine, but also considers a pressing paradoxical dilemma-loving machines we want to hate.
| ISBN: | 9780791468456 |
| Publication date: | 10th August 2006 |
| Author: | Eric Wilson |
| Publisher: | SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 172 pages |
| Genres: |
Popular culture Films, cinema Psychology |
Explores the cultural significance of androids.The Melancholy Android is a psychological study of the impulses behind the creation of androids. Exploring three imaginative figures-the mummy, the golem, and the automaton-and their appearances in myth, religion, literature, and film, Eric G.
The Melancholy Android features in the following genres: Popular culture, Films, cinema, Psychology
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The Melancholy Android was written by Eric Wilson and published by SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press
The Melancholy Android has 172 pages