[ePub] Hollywood's Detectives: Crime Series in the 1930s and 1940s from the Whodunnit to Hard-boiled Noir (Crime Files) by F. Mason in Arts-Photography

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The automaton; known today as the robot; can be seen as a metaphor for the historical period in which it is explored. Chapters include examinations of Iconoclasms fear that art might surpass nature; the Cartesian mind/body divide; automata as objects of courtly desire; the uncanny Olympia; and the revolutionary Robots in post-WWI drama.