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Humanoid Robots

Humanoid Robots

Online Streaming Videos

The Golem. San Francisco, California, USA: Kanopy Streaming, 2014.

Lang, Fritz, Karl Freund, Günther Rittau, Gottfried Huppertz, Frank Strobel, Otto Hunte, Erich Kettelhut, et al. Metropolis. [2010 restored version]. New York, NY: Kino International, 2010.

Williams, Robin, Sam Neill, Embeth Davidtz, Chris Columbus, Nicholas Kazan, Wolfgang Petersen, Isaac Asimov, and Robert Silverberg. Bicentennial Man. Burbank, Calif: Touchstone Home Video, 2000. [access via Yamada Language Center Virtual Language Lab]

DVD

Williams, Robin, Sam Neill, Embeth Davidtz, Chris Columbus, Nicholas Kazan, Wolfgang Petersen, Isaac Asimov, and Robert Silverberg. Bicentennial Man. Burbank, Calif: Touchstone Home Video, 2000.

Online Resources

 Barzilai, Maya. The Golem, How He Came into the World. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2020.

Brockmann, Stephen. A Critical History of German Film. Second edition. Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2020.

"The Medium is the Message." In: McLuhan, Marshall, and W. Terrence Gordon. Understanding Media : the Extensions of Man. Edited by W. Terrence Gordon. Berkeley, California: Gingko Press, 2013.

"Three Laws of Robotics." In: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (Book Analysis) : Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide. Cork: Primento Digital, 2019.

Eisner, Lotte H. The Haunted Screen; Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.

Andreas Huyssen, “The Vamp and the Machine: Technology and             Sexuality in Fritz Lang's Metropolis.” New German Critique, 1981, Vol.24-25 (24/25), p.221-237 (online)

Asimov, Isaac. I, Robot. Bantam trade paperback edition. New York: Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC, 2008.

Asimov, Isaac. The Bicentennial Man, and Other Stories. London: Gollancz, 1977.

Elsaesser, Thomas. Metropolis. 2nd ed. London ;: Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2012.

German Language

Jacobsen, Wolfgang, Anton. Kaes, and Hans Helmut. Prinzler. Geschichte des deutschen Films. 2., aktualisierte und erw. Aufl. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2004.

Additional Resources for Further Research

Asimov, Isaac. The Bicentennial Man, and Other Stories. London: Gollancz, 1977.

Barzilai, Maya. The Golem, How He Came into the World. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2020.

Elsaesser, Thomas. Metropolis. 2nd ed. London ;: Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2012.

Gunn, James E. Isaac Asimov : the Foundations of Science Fiction. Rev. ed. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 1996.

Luokkala, Barry B. Exploring Science through Science Fiction. New York, NY: Springer, 2014.

McElhaney, Joe, and Nicholas Baer. A Companion to Fritz Lang. Edited by Joe McElhaney. Chichester, [England: Wiley Blackwell, 2015.

McGilligan, Patrick. Fritz Lang : the Nature of the Beast. First University of Minnesota Press edition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

Minden, Michael., and Holger Bachmann. Fritz Lang’s Metropolis : Cinematic Visions of Technology and Fear. Rochester, N.Y: Camden House, 2000.

Palumbo, Donald E. An Asimov Companion : Characters, Places and Terms in the Robot/empire/foundation Metaseries. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2016.

Additional Resources for Further Research

Beatrice, Luca, and Peter Mark Eaton. Robot : a Visual Atlas from Ancient Greece to Artificial Intelligence. Translated by Peter Mark Eaton. First edition. Milan: 24 ORE Cultura, 2017.

Bro, Lisa Wenger, Crystal O’Leary-Davidson, and Mary Ann Gareis. Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable : the Cultural Links Between the Human and Inhuman. Edited by Lisa Wenger Bro, Crystal O’Leary-Davidson, and Mary Ann Gareis. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Clarke, Bruce. Posthuman Metamorphosis Narrative and Systems. 1st ed. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.

Hankins, Thomas L., and Robert J. Silverman. Instruments and the Imagination. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Johnson, Brian David., Cory. Doctorow, Chris. Warner, and Sidney. Perkowitz. Science Fiction Prototyping : Designing the Future with Science Fiction. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2011.

Jordan, John M. Robots. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2016.

Kakoudaki, Despina. Anatomy of a Robot : Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People. New Brunswick, New Jersey ;: Rutgers University Press, 2014.

Kapell, Matthew, and Ace G. Pilkington. The Fantastic Made Visible : Essays on the Adaptation of Science Fiction and Fantasy from Page to Screen. Edited by Matthew Kapell and Ace G. Pilkington. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015.

Schelde, Per. Androids, Humanoids, and Other Science Fiction Monsters : Science and Soul in Science Fiction Films. New York: New York University Press, 1993.