title: Projecting the Shadow: The Cyborg Hero in American Film (New Practices of Inquiry (Paperback))
author:  Janice Hocker Rushing 
description: Through in-depth examinations of six representative films, the authors' track the narrative's thread from the frontier hunter to the rise of his technological nemesis, demonstrating how each film dramatizes a phase of an unfolding myth.
zlib_text: TESTING TRUTH
  A fun-loving cyborg gets serious about love.
  Truth lives each moment as though it were his last. The cyborg warrior rushes into danger, teases
  beings he shouldn’t provoke, accepts every call of adventure he encounters.
  When a prissy little human princess floats into the Rebel structure Truth is occupying, seeking a
  mercenary to assist her and her unusual entourage, he volunteers to be her warrior. She claims their
  assignment is dangerous, warns him he might not survive the task.
  That is exactly the type of fun he has been seeking.
  Princess Nanette of the planet Royaume must rescue her estranged brother from an enemy prison
  ship. That is her duty, and she has been trained to always place the needs of her planet and her
  subjects before her own. Nancy doesn’t have the freedom to indulge her passions for a certain dark-
  haired, gray-skinned cyborg. Not permanently and not publicly.
  But she is unable to resist the warrior. Truth, with his laughing eyes, smiling lips, and rough