Being Bionic : The World of TV Cyborgs

Name: Being Bionic
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SKU: 9781784536480
Price: 4850 KES
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ISBN: 9781784536480

by Bronwen Calvert

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Investigating Cult TV

ISBN-10 1784536482

ISBN-13 9781784536480

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint I.B. Tauris

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 11th, 2017

Print length 256 Pages

Weight 286 grams

Dimensions 14.00 x 21.70 x 2.40 cms

Product Classification: Television Television

KSh 4,850.00

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Technologically-enhanced human bodies can be the stuff of dreams, but also of nightmares.

The contradictions and complexities of the cyborg therefore hold particular appeal to programme makers of dramatic TV narratives. Bronwen Calvert examines the uses and representations of the cyborg in this ground-breaking text, by looking at its frequent appearance in a wide variety of popular and cult shows: from the iconic Daleks of Doctor Who and bionic female empowerment in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, to the duality of humanoid and distinctly robotic cyborgs in Battlestar Galactica. In doing so, she reveals how television''s defining traits shape our experience of cyborgs and help us as viewers to question contemporary issues such as surveillance and terrorism, as well as the function of simulation and ultimately what it means to be human.

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