The politics of perfection : technology and creation in literature and film /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hale, Kimberly Hurd, 1983- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]
Series:	Politics, literature, & film
Subjects:	Technology in literature. Technology in motion pictures. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) in literature. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) in motion pictures. Liberalism in literature. Politics and literature.

Table of Contents:

Perfecting the human
The City divided: Fritz Lang's Metropolis
Of gods and robots: Ridley Scott's Prometheus
The politics of remembering: Michael Gondry's Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
The price of immortality: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go and natural rights in a cloned world
Shiny people, happy people: saving the world from mankind in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and crake
Self-guided evolution or self-destruction?