Man Vs. Machine
Date Submitted: 08/20/2003 13:52:49
Category: / Arts & Humanities / Film & TV
Length: 3 pages (764 words)
Category: / Arts & Humanities / Film & TV
Length: 3 pages (764 words)
Man vs. Machine
Since the yearly Fifties science fiction movies have depicted robots as very sophisticated machines built by humans to perform complex operations, to work with humans in safe critical missions, in hostile environments, or more often to pilot and control spaceships in galactic travels. At the same time, however, intelligent robots have also been depicted as dangerous machines, capable of working against man through wicked plans. In the Terminator the view of the …
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…of old and new modes of production in industry. But it also seems to me, that the days of the unthinking means of cinematic portrayal, like the traditional factory and its job-classified worker and their similar forms of representation, may be numbered.
Work Cited
The Terminator. Dir. James Cameron. Perf. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn,
Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield. Artisan, 1984.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Dir. James Cameron. Perf. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda
Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick. Artisan, 1991.
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