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Robots in popular culture : androids and cyborgs in the American imagination / Richard A. Hall.
Van Pelt Library P96.R632 U653 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hall, Richard A., 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Robots in mass media--Encyclopedias.
- Robots in mass media.
- Mass media--United States--Encyclopedias.
- Mass media.
- Robots in popular culture--United States--Encyclopedias.
- Robots in popular culture.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Encyclopedias.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 325 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2021]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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
- Brain iac
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hall, Richard A., 1969- Robots in popular culture
- ISBN:
- 9781440873843
- 1440873844
- OCLC:
- 1231579954
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