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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Goody, Alex, 1971- (Editor), Mackay, Antonia (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.