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Reality and Fiction Reality and Fiction
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Intelligent Machines in Science Fiction Intelligent Machines in Science Fiction
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Interface Fantasies Interface Fantasies
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Emotional Patterns Emotional Patterns
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References References
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Suggested Fiction Suggested Fiction
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Suggested Film and Television Suggested Film and Television
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9 Affect and Machines in the Media
Get accessDespina Kakoudaki teaches literature, film, visual and cultural studies, and the history of technology at American University in Washington DC. Her new book, Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People (Rutgers University Press, 2014) traces our fascination with mechanical and constructed people, such as robots, cyborgs, androids and automata. In addition to articles on robots and cyborgs, race and melodrama in action and disaster films, melodrama and coincidence, and the political role of the pin-up in World War II, he has co-edited a collection of essays on the work of Pedro Almodovar with Brad Epps (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
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Published:04 August 2014
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This chapter is from the forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of Affective Computing edited by Rafael Calvo, Sidney K. D'Mello, Jonathan Gratch, and Arvid Kappas. This chapter traces literary and cinematic representations of intelligent machines in order to provide background for the fantasies and implicit assumptions that accompany these figures in contemporary popular culture. Using examples from media depictions of robots, androids, cyborgs, and computers, this analysis offers a historical and theoretical overview of the cultural archive of fictional robots and intelligent machines—an archive that implicitly affects contemporary responses to technological projects.
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