Bibliography
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by Rachel Rein
rachel@cinemaspace.berkeley.edu

Cyborgs in Film: Select Bibliography


Printed Materials


Richard Appignanesi and Chris Garratt with Ziauddin Sardar and Patrick Curry, Introducing Postmodernism, (New York: Totem Books, 1995)

Michael Benedikt, "Introduction" in Cyberspace: First Steps, Ed. Michael Benedikt, (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1991)

Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" in llluminations: Essays and Reflections, (New York: Schocken Books, 1985), pg 217-251

Scott Bukatman, Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Post-Modern Science Fiction, (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1993)

Steven Connor, Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary, (Second Edition; Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997)

Hal Foster, Compulsive Beauty, (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1993)

Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, (New York: Routledge, 1991) [excerpts from The Cyborg Manifesto]

Michael Heim, "The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace," Cyberspace: First Steps, Ed. Michael Benedikt, (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1991)

Ed. Annette Kuhn, Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction, (London: Verso, 1990) pg.128-141

Jerry Mander, In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations, (San Fransisco: Sierra Club Books, 1991), Part 1: Questions We Should Have Asked About Technology, pg 9-50; Part 2: The Inevitable Direction of Metatechnology, pg 51-74

Re/Search: J.G. Ballard, #8/9 (San Fransico: V/Search, 1984)

Hillel Schwartz, The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimilies, (New York: Zone Books, 1996)

Claudia Springer, "The Pleasure of the Interface", in Screen, Vol. 32, No.3 (Autumn 1991), pgs. 303 - 323

VideoHound's Sci-Fi Experience: Your Quantum Guide to the Video Universe, (Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1997)


Electronic Materials

cited according to World Wide Words


Roger Ebert, review of Robocop, <http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/1987/07/243317.html>, (published 17July87, accessed 22May97)

William Gibson, william gibson's yardshow -- an ongoing experiment in semiotic drift, <http://www.idoru.com/index1.html>, (accessed 20May97)

Neyir Cenk Gökçe, Definitions of Science Fiction, <http://www.panix.com/~gokce/sf_defn.html>, (accessed 20May97)

Neyir Cenk Gökçe, Neyir Cenk Gökçe's Science Fiction Page, <http://www.panix.com/~gokce/sf_ncg.html>, (accessed 20May97)

Donna Haraway, The Ironic Dream of a Common Language for Women in the Integrated Circuit: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s or A Socialist Feminist Manifesto for Cyborgs, <http://www.rochester.edu/College/FS/Publications/HarawayCyborg.html>, (last modified 9April96, accessed 20May97)

Michael Heim, The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace, <http://www.rochester.edu/College/FS/Publications/HeimErotic.html>, (last modified, 9April96, accessed 8May97)

Micheal Hill, Michael Hill's SCI-FI Webpage, <http://www.seanet.com/~jghill/>, (accessed 20May97)

The Internet Movie Database, <http://www.imdb.com/>, (accessed January96)

NASA, National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC), <http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/>, (accessed 20May97)

NASA, NASA Spacelink, <http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov/home.index.html>, (accessed 20May97)

National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), Human Genome Project, <http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/HGP/>, (accessed 22May97)

Elizabeth Reid, Ident$ and the Cyborg Body, <http://www.rochester.edu/College/FS/Publications/ReidIdentity.html>, (last modified 10April96, accessed 12May97)

Anders Sandberg, Transhumanist Resources, <http://www.aleph.se/Trans/>, (updated 25April97; accessed 25May97)

Gerald Stark, Prosthetic History Page, <http://www.nupoc.northwestern.edu/prosHistory.html>, (updated 6October95, accessed 28 Spetember 2000)

Transhuman Technologies, Body Modification and Augmentation, <http://www.thehub.com.au/~mitch/extro/cyborg.html>, (last modified 22April96, accessed 25May97)

University of Iowa Libraries Gateway to the Internet, Communication Studies / Digital Media: Cyborgs, <http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/gw/comm/digitalmedia/digitalcyborg.html>, (created 29December96; accessed 12May97)

University of Rochester, Films Studies Publications listing, <http://www.rochester.edu/College/FS/Publications/>, (last modified 15January95, accessed 20May97)


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