Reading Westworld
Reading Westworld is the first volume to explore the cultural, textual and theoretical significance of the hugely successful HBO TV seriesWestworld. The essays engage in a series of original enquiries into the central themes of the series including conceptions of the human and posthuman, American hi...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2019.
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| Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2019. |
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 1. Introduction, Alex Goody and Antonia Mackay
- 2. These violent delights: Navigating Westworld as 'quality' television, Kim Wilkins
- 3. 'That which is real is irreplaceable': Lies, Damned Lies, and (Dis)Simulations in Westworld, Will Slocombe
- 4. Factitive Maps: Manipulating Landscapes and Characters in Vast Narratives, Guilia Taurino and Sara Casoli
- 5. Westworld and the Pursuit of Meaningful Play, Andra Ivanescu
- 6. Music as a Source of Narrative Information in HBO's Westworld, Kingsley Marshall
- 7. The Frontier Myth of Memory, Dreams, and Trauma in Westworld, Carol Erwin
- 8. Long Live the New Flesh: Race and the Posthuman in Westworld, Sherryl Vint
- 9. Flies in the Face: Entomology and the Mechanics of Becoming-Living in Westworld, Kristen Tregar
- 10. Westworld's Archideology and the Impossibility of Freedom, Antonia Mackay
- 11. A Mere Instrument of Production: Representing Domestic Labour in Westworld, Sadek Kessous
- 12. Escaping the Robot's Loop? Power and Purpose, Myth and History in Westworld's Manufactured Frontier, Dustin Abnet
- 13. I-n- I re-member now: A Rastafari Reading of HBO's Westworld, Milt Moise
- 14. The Theme Park of Forking Paths: Text, Intertext and Hypertext in Westworld, Alex Goody
- 15. Yul Brynner's Hat and Time Travel in the Hyperreal, Leander Reeves
- 16. Epilogue, Alex Goody and Antonia Mackay.
