Technolophilia: Technology, Representation, and the Feminine

These are the notes for my Literary presentation of Mary Ann Doane’s article. Sorry about the lateness of the post, I’ve been having some computer issues. Anxieties over technology are mapped onto the feminine. Fears of technology become associated with fears of female sexuality, technology is also therefore not about production as it is reproduction. [...]

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Original Metropolis V.s Anime Metropolis

Melody J. Acosta Blog Post 1 9/21/08 Ok so I just finished watching the anime version of metropolis and I thought it was so completely different from the original one. For one, the anime metropolis was a little more futuristic having robot workers instead of the lower classed human workers that the original metropolis had. [...]

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Metropolis

Alex Bryce 9/16/08 Blog Post #2 First, I just wanted to say that Metropolis was the first black-and-white silent movie I’ve ever seen! Because I watch TV and movies with subtitles/closed captions, I had no problem reading the dialogue and the plot summaries on the screen. However, it was slightly disorientating not to be able [...]

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