Os robôs e Isaac Asimov : uma análise das relações entre o homem e a máquina na literatura e no cinema de ficção científica

• Autor(a) principal: Melo, Karen Stephanie
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/25147
• topic: Isaac Asimov; robôs; literatura de ficção científica; cinema de ficção científica; Inteligência artificial; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS

Science Fiction is popularly known for movies that usually present spaceships, interplanetary travels, futuristic scenarios, and men living with highly advanced technology. However, even before the movies, Science Fiction is a literary genre originated in the beginning of the 20th century, in the United States, in magazines known as pulp fiction. With that, the genre started to develop itself, as magazine fans would give their opinion about the stories and, also, tried to write their own stories. One of these readers has become a great author of the genre and with his short stories he enabled readers to imagine how the world would be if there were robots so smart as human beings. This author, named Isaac Asimov, ended up influencing several other writers, movie directors and TV series producers who would create other very popular stories, such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Terminator, 2001: Space Odyssey, and others. As in Asimov’s short stories, these narratives will always put men before robots, which are sometimes friendly and helpful, and other times are mean and threatening to humans. In light of this, this paper proposes a study of three of Isaac Asimov’s short stories, published in pulp magazines in the 1940s and published as a compilation in the 1950s under the title of I, Robot, and of the movie Artificial Intelligence, directed by Steven Spielberg in 2001. The analysis of the corpus aims to comprehend how the relation between men and machine is established in Science Fiction and what this relation means, both in the 20th century literature and in the contemporary cinema.