Artificial Humans: Manic Machines Controlled Bodies
Published by Goethe Institut; Jovis, London and Berlin, 2000
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127 pages, illustrations: 30 cm. Published on the occasion of the historical retrospective of the Berlin International Film Festival 2000 by Filmmuseum Berlin-Deutsche Kinemathek in collaboration with the Berlin International Film Festival. Firm binding, clean inside copy. *** CONTENTS: Manic Machines, Controlled Bodies: A Foreword, by Rolf Aurich, Wolfgang Jacobsen, Gabriele Jatho; Dream Replicants of the Cinema: Passage Through Old and New Moving Images, by Georg Seesslen; What's A Man? Bred People, Intelligent Computers: Documents; Can a Machine Ever Become Self-Aware? Thoughts on the Terminator, by Giorgio C. Buttazzo; Animated Machines: On The Terminator, Robocop and Blade Runner: Workshop Reports; Possible People: Thoughts on the Literary and Cultural History of the Android, by Peter Gendolla; What is the Golem? Legend, Literary and Cinematic Figure: Documents and Memoirs; Granting Life: Impotence and Power of the Female Cyborg, by Elisabeth Bronfen; From Vampire to Vamp: On the Background of a Cinematic Myth, by Klaus Kreimeier; The Index is the Umbilical Cord: On Photo Doubles and Digital Chimeras, by Katharina Sykora; Ideal Idols: New Stars in Global Networks, by Ulrich Gutmair; Annotated Bibliography: A Selection, by Holger Schnell; Artificial Humans: Biographical Notes: A Glossary, by Rolf Giesen. Size: 4to.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Artificial Humans: Manic Machines Controlled Bodies
- Author
- Aurich, Rolf, and Jacobsen, Wolfgang, and Jatho, Gabriele (Joint Editors)
- Publisher
- Goethe Institut; Jovis, London and Berlin
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller catalogs
- European::9. Contemporary, European::German, Austrian & Swiss, Film & TV, Media::Digital Arts, XXL::Extra Extra Large, XXX::COLLECTIBLES
LEFT COAST BOOKS
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