The Mechanical Bride and the Ambivalent Pleasures of the Uncanny
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- transcript, Bielefeld
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- 2023
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- 978-3-8376-6761-5
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- 978-3-8394-6761-9
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The Mechanical Bride and the Ambivalent Pleasures of the Uncanny
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- ISBN-Print
- 978-3-8376-6761-5
- ISBN-Online
- 978-3-8394-6761-9
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In this essay, filmmaker-scholar Allison de Fren discusses the ideas and questions around the uncanny that informed her feature-length documentary THE MECHANICAL BRIDE (2012). The film, which premiered at the HotDocs Festival, explores the science fiction fantasy of creating the perfect woman and the developing reality of artificial companions within the sexdoll and robotics industries.
