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...Janet Bergstrom © 1986 by Camera Obscura 1986 Liyirrd Sky (Sl,iv,i Tsukerrnan, 1982) Androids and Androgyny Junet Bergs trom The overwhelming response of the young public to Star Wars in 1977 sparked an unforeseen renaissance in the popularity of science fiction films. Star Wars...

... the actual, historical man of learning and public figure-not, per se, the mad scientist of fiction, although the two overlap considerably. I will look at the scientist’s production of an android, a legend that is attributed to certain histor- ical men of iearning who threaten to shatter...

... golden phonographs in place of lungs. They will record, in addition to Alicia’s voice, a sixty- hour “~rogram’~whose effect constitutes “precisely the miracle, and also the hidden peril” which the Android inspires. Edison explains that they are made of virgin gold...

... It suggests that the farther we travel into the future the more profoundly we encounter the past. Thus, journeying into the year 2019, we discover not only androids, space ships, and new technologies, but the cinematic world of Philip Marlowe, with its low-key lighting, rain-streaked streets, femme...

... puts into question. The film posits a world in which humans are indistinguishable from androids to the 90 naked “human” eye, in which the terms life and death are irrevocably confounded, and where a visual technological apparatus, called the “empathy test,” is used to determine who...

... concerned with problems of difference-human and non-human as well as male and female-and, moreover, often has constructed categories of masculine and feminine difference through the ambiguous sexual status it assigns to the robot, android, or extra-terrestrial. Vivian Sobchak gives a polemical...

... is after all the “prototype for the exquisite female android and, as a dangerous enchantress . . . also the prototype for the femme because she is a humanoid female,46carrying a box of mysterious origin. Ray Santilli has stated that “all the creatures were female,”47...

.... $16.95. Androids, Humanoids, and Other Science Fiction Monsters: Science and Soul in Science Fiction Films by Per Schelde. New York University Press, 1993. Cinema and Spectatorship by Judith Mayne. Routledge, 1993. $16.95. History of the American Cinema, Volume 5...

...-14; pp. 163-193. Bellour, Raymond Ideal Hadaly. No.15; pp. 111-135. Bergstrom, Janet Androids and Androgyny. No.15; pp. 37- 65. Dadoun, Roger Metropolis: Mother-City-“Mitt1er”-Hitler. No. 15; pp. 137- 163. Duguet, Anne-Marie...

... specialty in film and television studies and science fiction. The article published in this volume is part of a book she is writing on The Learned Man’s Android, about the myth of the historical male scientist and his illicit reproductions. Higley (as “Caves”) writes fiction, and is best known...

... that when androids lost their heads, those heads continued to express the particular robotic personality of the whole machine. This was as strikingly odd to me as the second trend (about which I have made much ado): that of robots, androids, and cyborgs carrying their weapons rather than having...

... human population repeating their mistakes and killing each other based on internal divisions — then another series of clips shows androids learning to love, create art, and behave altruistically, all after an overlay stating, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives/But the one most...

... is always aided by a technology that has not only gone terribly awry, but also looks a lot like us-the eighties’ version of pod people are not alien appropriations of human bodies but anthropomorphic androids and cyborgs. In sum, although there have been a number of films...

... that are to mark subjectivity as the “clues” that subjec- tivity may be illusory. In that film, which overtly problematizes the parameters of human subjectivity via an examination of the woman, the femme fatale’s moral condition is allegorized: is she or is she not an android? Does she have a “past...

... perfectly mirrors his accelerated decrepitude, his “Methuselah Syndrome.” Old is diseased in Blade Runner’s city of the future, as the rapidly aging androids figure out. Old, like the Bradbury Building, is at the bottom. Similar distinctions are made in Bat- man: decrepitude is basement level—the aging...

... of significance — we are never given the context of the dystopic situation, of why the city seems forever drowned in acid rain and dark of night. The source text of the film, Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, suggests it to be the result of atomic war, but in deciding to omit...

... on a film, Huyssen provides a well• argued case for Lang's use of the android, the robot-Maria, as a displacement of the threat of femininity onto a technological other: It is as if the destructive potential of modem technology, which the ex• pressionists rightfully feared, had to be displaced...

... concerns are mainly political. The extreme and persistent fluid ejaculation is an act of reclamation and empowerment. The sexual acts are operational, therapeutical, bringing back the dysfunctional android by sexual interaction. In the film, LICK, a woman s fluid joint, is set inside an expanded vagina...

...: Film, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989), 121–97. 62. See Sheila Johnson, “Not Nouvelle and Far Too Vague: That’s the Trouble with Contemporary French Cinema. But Why?” Independent (London), 30 April 2000. 63. Janet Bergstrom, “Androids...

...-Adam’s The Eve of the Future (1881- 1886). Writing about this novel, Annette Michelson describes it as a prefiguration of cinema. l6 This “utopian” text about Thomas Edison, in which an anatomical wax model informs the imaging of a female android, epitomizes the dynamics of representation...