{"product_id":"electronic-eros","title":"Electronic Eros","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe love affair between humans and the machines that have made us faster and more powerful has expanded into cyberspace, where computer technology seems to offer both the promise of heightened erotic fulfillment and the threat of human obsolescence. In this pathfinding study, Claudia Springer explores the techno-erotic imagery in recent films, cyberpunk fiction, comic books, television, software, and writing on virtual reality and artificial intelligence to reveal how these futuristic images actually encode current debates concerning gender roles and sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on psychoanalytical and film theory, as well as the history of technology, Springer offers the first sustained analysis of eroticism and gender in such films as \u003ci\u003eRoboCop\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Terminator\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEve of Destruction\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLawnmower Man\u003c\/i\u003e; cyberpunk books such as \u003ci\u003eNeuromancer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCount Zero\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVirtual Light\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Fire in the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLady El\u003c\/i\u003e; the comic books \u003ci\u003eCyberpunk\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eInterface\u003c\/i\u003e, among others; and the television series \u003ci\u003eMann and Machine\u003c\/i\u003e. Her analysis demonstrates that while new electronic technologies have inspired changes in some pop culture texts, others stubbornly recycle conventions from the past, refusing to come to terms with the new postmodern social order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten to be accessible and entertaining for students and general readers as well as scholars, \u003ci\u003eElectronic Eros\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest to a wide interdisciplinary audience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54245152817496,"sku":"9780292776975","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780292776975.jpg?v=1783519229","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/electronic-eros","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}