RoboCop
Omar Ahmed
Abstract
RoboCop, Dutch director Paul Verhoeven's first American film, was both a commercial and (surprise) critical hit on release in 1987. Marking its thirtieth anniversary, this book explores the film from a variety of critical approaches, including rereading RoboCop as a Western; the neofascist corporatization of the human body; satire, late-Reagan America and the rise of neoliberalism; resurrection, death, and the figure of the cyborg in science fiction; and the legacy of the film across American cinema and within Verhoeven's own body of work, which includes Total Recall and Starship Troopers, bot ... More
Keywords: Paul Verhoeven, neoliberalism, cyborg, science fiction film, American culture, late-Reagan America
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 | Print ISBN-13: 9781911325253 |
| Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: February 2021 | DOI:10.3828/liverpool/9781911325253.001.0001 |
