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作者： Gaby Wood 著

出 版 社： 东至影音 (代销)

出版时间： 2003-7-1字数：版次： 1页数： 304印刷时间： 2003/07/01开本： 32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781400031580包装： 平装内容简介

Embodying the confusions between what is "lifelike" and what is alive, robots have always held an anxious fascination. When eighteenth-century physicians described the body as a complex piece of machinery, the stage was set for inventors like Jacques de Vaucanson, who thrilled Paris with a flute-playing android, and Wolfgang von Kempelen, whose chess-playing automaton took on the best players of its time. Deftly balancing historical detail with provocative meditations on the reception accorded such marvels, Wood then traces the development of subsequent imitations of life, such as the talking doll designed by Thomas Edison and the magic-filled films of Georges Méliès. Her contention that in the twentieth century human freaks came to seem more uncanny than machines may not entirely persuade, but the exotic particulars—especially those pertaining to a group of circus midgets called the Doll Family—more than make up for this inconsistency.

目录

List of Illustrations

Introduction

ONE

The Blood of an Android

TWO

An Unreasonable Game

THREE

Journey to the Per~ect Woman

FOUR

Magical Mysteries, Mechanical Dreams

FIVE

The Doll Family

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Index

 

 

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