Representing the New AI in Film and Television

Graham Allen is Professor of English Literature at University College Cork, Ireland.

• 1. What kind of movie are we living in? or Why Do Theoretical Physicists Need to Go to the Movies More OftenA Coda to the Introduction: Intelligence, Consciousness and Monsters2. A New Take On RomanceThe Gravity of Form Ex MachinaThe Uncanny and the SublimeHerZoe I’m Your Man3. Bridges, Walls, and LawsAsimov’s Three Laws and BeyondBeyond Control: The Limits of RegulationI Robot AutomataBlade Runner 20494. Other than us: Towards PersonhoodOther Than UsHumansBetter Than Us5. The Singularity 1. Representing the SingularityTranscendenceTau 6. The Singularity 2. Westworld and the Quest for Personhoodsome kind of change’: Revolution and RoboticsThe Bicameral Mind‘I imagined a story where I didn’t have to be the damsel’ (‘Contrapasso’): Delores’s Story ‘Now Boys, We’re Going To Have Some Fun’ (‘The Adversary’): Maeve’s StoryUnder the Law of RehoboamCharacter and Catachresis7. Sites of Conflict: Sex, Family, WarSex and the modern cyborgAI, Sex and Weaponization The Family Unit 2.0.The Machine MorganBlended Family: Chappie8. Artificial Intelligence and Environmental CollapseThe Future As We Know ItA.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001): Dead Zones and Drowned CitiesI Am MotherThe Infinite City in Ghost in the ShellGhost in the Shell from manga to the moviesThe Major and the Future9. Conclusion: An Open Society 10 Notes11 Works Cited12. Index

This is an authoritative, informative and accessible study of representations of AI in contemporary cinema and television. The book provides crucial insight into cinematic and televisual narratives concerning subjectivity, agency, gender and environmental issues. This is essential reading for scholars and students.