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(2015) The Palgrave handbook of posthumanism in film and television, Dordrecht, Springer.
Contemporary Hollywood films dealing with human evolution exhibit a dialectic: the anxiety about the nature of the superhuman, who is the result of the evolutionary process, whether voluntary or involuntary, and the "popular fantasy" of what I shall be calling a 'species cosmopolitanism".
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Nayar, P. K. (2015)., "Trust a few, fear the rest": the anxiety and fantasy of human evolution, in M. Hauskeller, T. D. Philbeck & C. D. Carbonell (eds.), The Palgrave handbook of posthumanism in film and television, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 380-390.
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