This study offers a view of fabricated reality from gene technology to virtuality. It deals with plagiarisms and their cinematic-technological reality and looks at texts from literature and film covering reproduction and artificial intelligence, for example R2D2, the Terminator and Lara Croft.
Manic Machines. Controlled Bodies A Foreword 7(2) Rolf Aurich Wolfgang Jacobsen Gabriele Jatho Dream Replicants of the Cinema Passage through Old and New Moving Images 9(33) Georg Seeßlen Whats Man? Bred People, Intelligent Computers Documents 42(3) Can a Machine Ever Become Self-aware? Thoughts on the Terminator 45(5) Giorgio C. Buttazzo Animated Machines On the Terminator, Robocop and Blade Runner Workshop Reports 50(5) Possible People Thoughts on the Literary and Cultural History of the Android 55(8) Peter Gendolla What is the Golem? Legend, Literary and Cinematic Figure Documents and Memoirs 63(7) Granting Life Impotence and Power of the Female Cyborg 70(7) Elisabeth Bronfen From Vampire to Vamp On the Background of a Cinematic Myth 77(20) Klaus Kreimeier The Index is the Umbilical Cord On Photo Doubles and Digital Chimeras 97(6) Katharina Sykora Ideal Idols New Stars in Global Networks 103(6) Ulrich Gutmair Annotated Bibliography A Selection 109(4) Holger Schnell Artificial Humans Biographical Notes / A Glossary 113(14) Rolf Giesen Addenda Authors / Acknowledgements / Photos 127
