<div>Part human, part machine, the cyborg is the hero of an increasingly popular genre of American film and, as Janice H. Rushing and Thomas S. Frentz so provocatively suggest, a cultural icon emblematic of an emergent postmodern mythology. Using the cyborg film as a point of departure, Rushing and Frentz examine how we rework Western myths and initiation rites in the face of new technologies.<br><br>Through in-depth examinations of six representative films--<i>Jaws, The Deer Hunter, The Manchurian Candidate, Blade Runner, The Terminator,</i> and <i>Terminator 2</i>--Rushing and Frentz track the narrative's thread from the hunter to his technological nemesis, demonstrating how each film represents an unfolding hunter myth.<br><br>For each movie, Rushing and Frentz show how uninitiated male hunters slowly lose control over their weapons. In <i>Jaws,</i> a 'soft' man, dominated by technology, can re-acquire the heroic hunter qualities he needs by teaming up with a 'savage' man and a 'technological' man. In doing so, he can still conquer the prey. <i>The Manchurian Candidate</i> charts how technology can turn a human into a weapon; <i>Blade Runner</i> perfects the artificial human with its manufactured replicants who are "more than human"; and <i>The Terminator</i> introduces a female hunter who leads humanity in its struggle against technology.<br><br></div>