Reading Westworld /
Reading Westworld is the first volume to explore the cultural, textual and theoretical significance of the hugely successful HBO TV series Westworld. The essays engage in a series of original enquiries into the central themes of the series including conceptions of the human and posthuman, American h...
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Cham :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- These Violent Delights: Navigating Westworld as "Quality" Television / Kim Wilkins
- "That Which Is Real Is Irreplaceable": Lies, Damned Lies, and (Dis-)simulations in Westworld / Will Slocombe
- Factitive Maps: Manipulating Spaces and Characters in Vast Narratives / Giulia Taurino and Sara Casoli
- Westworld and the Pursuit of Meaningful Play / Andrea Ivănescu
- Music as a Source of Narrative Information in HBO's Westworld / Kingsley Marshall
- Frontier Myth of Memory, Dreams, and Trauma in Westworld / Carol Erwin
- Long Live the New Flesh: Race and the Posthuman in Westworld / Sherryl Vint
- Flies in the Face: Entomology and the Mechanics of Becoming-Living in Westworld / Kristen Tregar
- Westworld's Archideology and the Impossibility of Freedom / Antonia Mackay
- Mere Instrument of Production: Representing Domestic Labour in Westworld / Sadek Kessous
- Escaping the Robot's Loop? Power and Purpose, Myth and History in Westworld's Manufactured Frontier / Dustin Abnet
- I-n-I Re-member Now: a Rastafari Reading of HBO's Westworld / Milt Moise
- Theme Park of Forking Paths: Text, Intertext and Hypertext in Westworld / Alex Goody
- Yul Brynner's Hat and Time Travel in the Hyperreal / Leander Reeves.