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Reading Westworld is the first volume to explore the cultural, textual and theoretical significance of the hugely successful HBO TV series Westworld. The essays engage in a series of original enquiries into the central themes of the series including conceptions of the human and posthuman, American history, gaming, memory, surveillance, AI, feminism, imperialism, free will and contemporary capitalism. In its varied critical engagements with the genre, narratives and contexts of Westworld, this volume explores the show's wider and deeper meanings and the questions it poses, as well considering how Westworld reflects on the ethical implications of artificial life and technological innovation for our own futurity. With critical essays that draw on the interdisciplinary strengths and productive intersections of media, cultural and literary studies, Reading Westworld seeks to respond to the show's fundamental question; "Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality?" It will be of interest to students, academics and general readers seeking to engage with Westworld and the far-reaching questions it poses about our current engagements with technology.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Alex Goody
is Professor of Twentieth Century Literature and Culture at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She researches and publishes on modernism, technology, women’s writing, feminism, poetry and American culture.
Antonia Mackay
is Teaching Fellow of English Literature at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is co-editor of a surveillance cultural studies collection with Palgrave Macmillan. Her research is focused on American literature and culture, twentieth and twenty-first century literature and cultural and media studies.
Zusammenfassung
Reading Westworld
is the first volume to explore the cultural, textual and theoretical significance of the hugely successful HBO TV series
Westworld
. The essays engage in a series of original enquiries into the central themes of the series including conceptions of the human and posthuman, American history, gaming, memory, surveillance, AI, feminism, imperialism, free will and contemporary capitalism. In its varied critical engagements with the genre, narratives and contexts of
Westworld
, this volume explores the show’s wider and deeper meanings and the questions it poses, as well considering how
Westworld
reflects on the ethical implications of artificial life and technological innovation for our own futurity. With critical essays that draw on the interdisciplinary strengths and productive intersections of media, cultural and literary studies,
Reading Westworld
seeks to respond to the show’s fundamental question; “Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality?” It will be of interest to students, academics and general readers seeking to engage with
Westworld
and the far-reaching questions it poses about our current engagements with technology.
