Robots in American popular culture / Steve Carper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carper, Steve, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robots--In popular culture.

Robots.

Robots in literature.

Physical Description:

v, 295 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]

Contents:

Part 1 The Robot Pre-Computer p. 9

1 The Robot and the Android: The Origin of the Species p. 11

2 The Heimlich Maneuver: Robots in Early Fiction p. 21

3 Is It Mechanism or Soul? Robots on the Stage p. 35

4 The Wonderful Walking Mechanical Men p. 46

5 "Quiet, Please-I'm Talking": The Westinghouse Family of Robots p. 64

6 Iron Monster Turns Traitor: Amateur Robots p. 74

7 Buck, Flash, Tillie and Mickey: Robots in Comic Strips p. 89

8 A Tribe of Living Mechanical Men!. Robots in Comic Books p. 110

9 Utterly Alien and Nonhuman: The Robot in Golden Age Science Fiction p. 128

10 The Automaton! Robots in Movies p. 148

Part 2 The Robot Post-Computer p. 157

11 Robots as Camp p. 159

12 Robots and Kids p. 172

13 Robots as Androids p. 192

14 Robots as Sexbots p. 208

15 Robots as Enemies p. 220

16 Robots, Robots Everywhere p. 229.

ISBN:

1476670412

9781476670416

OCLC:

1057304887