RoboCop (1987)
The city of Detroit is facing financial and social ruin due to street crime and economic collapse. City politicians have given up on maintaining law and order and have instead contracted with the mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products to handle the problem. However, when Omni's chairman decides to demolish the crumbling downtown and build a new city of the future, a conflict arises. Some of Omni's executives propose using robots or cyborgs to deal with the urban population, leading to the creation of RoboCop when a police officer is injured in the line of duty and becomes the subject of an experimental operation.
Books with substantial mentioning of RoboCop
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Jürgen Müller Die besten Filme der 80er Köln - London - Los Angeles - Madrid - Paris - Tokyo, 2005 |
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James Robert Parish The Great Cop Pictures Metuchen, N.J., & London, 1990 |
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| Frank N. Magill (ed.) Magill's Cinema Annual 1988, A Survey of the Films of 1987 Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1988 |
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Articles on RoboCop
| Adam Smith, Triple Dutch, in: Empire, nr. 278 (August), 2012 pp. 98-113 |