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Abstract

Short Abstract

The commonplace that monster stories disguise collective anxiety is evaluated within the frame of nine Artificial Intelligence-themed films produced from 1979 and 2018. I conducted a machine learning classification task with the open-source platform toward illustrating those films’ resonance with Shelley’s 1818 . This study concludes by calling for substitution of text sets in order to answer pressing questions in the digital humanities. In doing so I assert the cognitive mapping potential revealed in computer-aided reading.

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