Being bionic : the world of TV cyborgs /: the world of TV cyborgs. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Bronwen Calvert.
• Authors: Calvert, Bronwen
• Contents: Cover; Author bio; Endorsement; Series Page; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of Illustrations ; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Troubled Boundaries and Transformative Cyborgs; Cyborg History; Cyborg Manifesto; Cyborg Corporeality; Cyborg Gender; Cyborg Virtuality; Cyborg Television; 1 Exterminate, Upgrade: Doctor Who; Inside/Outside: Doctor Who's Technological Monsters; Anything for an Upgrade: 'Rise of the Cybermen'/ 'Age of Steel'; 'It was a woman': Experience of Cyborg Embodiment; Who is the Monster?: Going Into the Dalek; 'Remember me': 'Asylum of the Daleks' 'I gave them back their souls': Individuality and the Cyborg'When we talked': the TARDIS as Cyborg; 2 Resistance, Assimilation and the Collective: Star Trek: The Next Generation and Voyager; Locutus of Borg: Embodiment on the Technological Borderline; Seven of Nine: Embodiment as Borg, Embodiment as Female; Community and Collective: Cyborg and Non-Cyborg Connections; Cyborg Monstrosity: 'Unimatrix Zero'; Re-assimilating the Cyborg: Seven of Nine as Parent and as Child; 3 Toasters and Replicas: Battlestar Galactica; The Cylon Centurions: Muscular Cyborgs; Cylon Raiders: Machine, Animal, Cyborg Cylon Resurrection: Doubles, Duplicates and the UncannyHumanoid Cylons: Cyborg Femininity and the Femme Fatale; Reproduction and Hybridity; Hybridity and a Cyborg Future; 4 'Between Life and Death': Embodiment and Virtuality in Caprica; Virtual Space and Cyborg Identity; A Cyborg Dances: Zoe-A as Cylon/Cyborg; Making a Place in Virtual Space: Life and Death in V-World; How to Live a Virtual Life: Apotheosis and Grace; 'The Shape of Things to Come': Cyborgs, Corporeality, Virtuality; 5 The Cyborg as Action Hero: Bionic Woman; The Bionic Body and Cyborg Physicality 'I'm losing control again': Sarah Corvus, the First Bionic Woman'Fifty million dollars' worth of my property': Power and Control; Bionics, Prostheses and Disability; 6 Us and Them: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles; 'Come with me if you want to live': Cinematic Cyborgs Move to Television; Versions of Female (Cyborg) Embodiment; Cyborg Embodiment: the Muscular Cyborg and the (Female) Action Hero; Television Terminators and Visual Spectacle; Terminators, Cyborgs and Emotional Intelligence; John Henry: Cyborg as Child; 'The answer is yes': Rethinking Them and Us 7 Hacking the System: DollhouseTaking Apart the Mind and the Body; 'Hack the system': Creating a Cyborg Doll/Active; Simulations, Dolls and Cyborgs; 'Tell me I know who I am': Simulated Identities and the Self; 'The real deal': Sierra/Priya and the Struggle for Authenticity; Return of the Imprints: Creating a Cyborg Identity; 8 Complete Control: Fringe; 'Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?': Cyborg Embodiment and Intertextuality; The Sympathetic Cyborg; Technological Affinity and Cyborg Transformation; 'You don't even know what you don't know': Peter and Observer Technology
• Publisher Details: London New York, NY : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 791.45/615; Science fiction television programs -- History and criticism; PERFORMING ARTS / Reference; Science fiction television programs; Electronic books; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786721020; 1786721023; 9781786731029; 1786731029
• Related ISBNs: 9781784536480; 1784536482
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 24, 2017).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.