Japanese robot culture : performance, imagination, and modernity /: performance, imagination, and modernity. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Yuji Sone.
• Authors: Sone, Yūji, 1954-
• Contents: Futuristic Spectacle: Robot Performances at Expos; Robot Spectacle at the Japan World Expo, 1970; Celebrating Japanś Robots: The Tsukuba Exposition, 1985; Nature and Technology: Garden and Greenery Exposition, Osaka, 1990; Integration and Fantasy: Expo 2005 in Aichi; Cultural Essentialism and Dramaturgy: In Tokyo and on the Australian Tour, 2007; Notes; References; 4: The Anthropomorphic Robot and Artistic Expression; Oriza Hirataś Robot Theatre; The Failure of Sayonara; Hiroshi Ishiguroś Android Experiments; Cultural Affordance and Preconceived Outcomes. Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; 1: Introduction: The Japanese Robot and Performance; Japanese Culture and the Robot; Defining the Robot; The History of the Japanese Performing Robot; Japanese Modernity and Technology; Theatre and Performance Concepts Through Japanese Culture; Performativity and Geinoh; The Performing Object and Staging; Double Vision; Participatory Spectatorship; In This Book; Notes; References; 2: Robotics and Representation; Japanese Humanoid Research; Japanese Robotics and Manga/Anime Culture; Astro Boy Syndrome; The Presence of the Japanese Humanoid; Notes. Robots and DisillusionmentNotes; References; 5: Robots, Space, and Place; Giant Robot Statues; Dreams of a Giant Robot; Robot Restaurant; Notes; References; 6: Hatsune Miku, Virtual Machine-Woman; The Development of Hatsune Miku; Japanese Fanzine Culture and Otaku; Lolicon Manga and Otaku Desire; Critique of the Otaku Imagination; Kawaii and Female Idols; Circuits of Signification: Otaku Sexuality; Notes; References; 7: Competition Robots: Empathy and Identification; Robot Contests; Robo-One; The Puppet, the Puppeteer, and the Spectator; Robots as Mediators. Continuum: Organic Beings and Inanimate ObjectsThe Human, the Monkey, the Robot, the Other; Bacarobo and Humour; Space, Community, and Audience; Clowning and Forms of Comedy; Satire and Modoki; Notes; References; 8: Robots that `Care;́ The Socially Assistive Robot; Aiboś Design; Communication with Paro; The Institutionalised Other; Fandom: Living with Robots; Notes; References; 9: Epilogue: Staging a Robot Nation; Notes; References; References; Index.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 301; 629.892; Robotics -- Social aspects; Robotics -- Human factors -- Japan; Robotics -- Japan; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General; Robotics; Robotics -- Human factors; Robotics -- Social aspects; Performing Arts -- Theater -- General; Computers -- Intelligence (AI) & Semantics; Theatre studies; Anthropology; Artificial intelligence; Theater; Anthropology; Artificial intelligence; Social Science -- General; Cultural studies; Japan; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137525277; 1137525274
• Related ISBNs: 9781137532169; 1137532165
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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