國立虎尾科技大學 |

Reading Westworld

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Reading Westworld/ edited by Alex Goody, Antonia Mackay.
其他作者:	Goody, Alex.
面頁冊數:	XIII, 313 p. 7 illus., 5 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
標題:	Motion pictures and television. -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14515-6
ISBN:	9783030145156

Reading Westworld
Reading Westworld[electronic resource] /edited by Alex Goody, Antonia Mackay. - 1st ed. 2019. - XIII, 313 p. 7 illus., 5 illus. in color.online resource.

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.

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 history, gaming, memory, surveillance, AI, feminism, imperialism, free will and contemporary capitalism. In its varied critical engagements with the genre, narratives and contexts of Westworld, this volume explores the show’s wider and deeper meanings and the questions it poses, as well considering how Westworld reflects on the ethical implications of artificial life and technological innovation for our own futurity. With critical essays that draw on the interdisciplinary strengths and productive intersections of media, cultural and literary studies, Reading Westworld seeks to respond to the show’s fundamental question; “Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality?” It will be of interest to students, academics and general readers seeking to engage with Westworld and the far-reaching questions it poses about our current engagements with technology. .

ISBN: 9783030145156

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-14515-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

839765
Motion pictures and television.

LC Class. No.: PN1992.63

Dewey Class. No.: 791.4

Reading Westworld
LDR:03942nam a22003975i 4500 001 1013267
003 DE-He213
005 20200701053407.0
007 cr nn 008mamaa
008 210106s2019 gw | s |||| 0|eng d
020 $a 9783030145156 $9 978-3-030-14515-6
024 7 $a 10.1007/978-3-030-14515-6 $2 doi
035 $a 978-3-030-14515-6
050 4 $a PN1992.63
072 7 $a AP $2 bicssc
072 7 $a PER000000 $2 bisacsh
072 7 $a AT $2 thema
082 0 4 $a 791.4 $2 23
245 1 0 $a Reading Westworld $h [electronic resource] / $c edited by Alex Goody, Antonia Mackay.
250 $a 1st ed. 2019.
264 1 $a Cham : $b Springer International Publishing : $b Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2019.
300 $a XIII, 313 p. 7 illus., 5 illus. in color. $b online resource.
336 $a text $b txt $2 rdacontent
337 $a computer $b c $2 rdamedia
338 $a online resource $b cr $2 rdacarrier
347 $a text file $b PDF $2 rda
505 0 $a 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.
520 $a 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 history, gaming, memory, surveillance, AI, feminism, imperialism, free will and contemporary capitalism. In its varied critical engagements with the genre, narratives and contexts of Westworld, this volume explores the show’s wider and deeper meanings and the questions it poses, as well considering how Westworld reflects on the ethical implications of artificial life and technological innovation for our own futurity. With critical essays that draw on the interdisciplinary strengths and productive intersections of media, cultural and literary studies, Reading Westworld seeks to respond to the show’s fundamental question; “Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality?” It will be of interest to students, academics and general readers seeking to engage with Westworld and the far-reaching questions it poses about our current engagements with technology. .
650 0 $a Motion pictures and television. $3 839765
650 0 $a Ethics. $3 555769
650 0 $a United States—Study and teaching. $3 1260129
650 1 4 $a Screen Studies. $3 1209908
650 2 4 $a American Culture. $3 1108141
700 1 $a Goody, Alex. $4 edt $4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt $3 1227371
700 1 $a Mackay, Antonia. $4 edt $4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt $3 1200224
710 2 $a SpringerLink (Online service) $3 593884
773 0 $t Springer Nature eBook
776 0 8 $i Printed edition: $z 9783030145149
776 0 8 $i Printed edition: $z 9783030145163
776 0 8 $i Printed edition: $z 9783030145170
856 4 0 $u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14515-6
912 $a ZDB-2-LCM
912 $a ZDB-2-SXL
950 $a Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (SpringerNature-41173)
950 $a Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0) (SpringerNature-43723)