AI in the Movies

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by Paula Murphy

Type: Studies
Subject: Technique > All techniques
Keywords: technology, artificial intelligence, software
Publishing date: 2024 (April 30, 2024)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English

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Physical desc.

Hardcover • 208 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4744-4858-1

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Book Presentation:
Analyses the representation of artificially intelligent entities in Hollywood film
• The first full length study of representations of artificial intelligence in film
• Covers the full range of AI film from its first emergence in the 1950s
• Includes Hollywood film and international film
• Explores which aspects of AI science fascinate filmmakers
• Identifies the key themes and tropes of AI film

AI in the Movies analyses film representations of artificial intelligence, from their first emergence in the 1950s up to 2020. These strong or general artificial intelligences take different forms: some are digital AIs, some robot AIs, some move between material and digital forms. Some are indistinguishable from humans, and some have no material existence at all.

Analysis of these representations demonstrates filmmakers eroding the division between human and AI, by presenting character doubles, narrative parallels and eventually, identities in which the biological and artificial overlap and intersect in new hybrid forms.

The book identifies the aspects of AI science that fascinate filmmakers and outlines the key themes and tropes in AI film, including parent-child relationships, the female robot, human-AI doubles, parallels and hybrids, and AI death and mortality.

About the Author:
Paula Murphy is Assistant Professor at the School of English in Dublin City University. Her research specialities include film and technology, short film, and contemporary Irish literature and film, and she has published widely in these areas.

Press Reviews:
Through analysis of a wide range of movies, directors, performers and AI technologies, AI in the Movies will be of keen value to scholars of the moving image. A timely book helping readers of diverse AI interests understand how AI is imagined, hoped and feared.
– Andrew McStay, Bangor University

Paula Murphy offers a comprehensive study of a pressing topic in cinema. In a market of several cutting-edge titles, this book treats a prominent theme that, for better or worse, will shape cinema's future.
– Matthew Sorrento, Editor-in-chief, Film International, Rutgers University-Camden

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