Sci Fi NOTES Flashcards
Name Classic Sci Fi
Melies TRIP TO THE MOON
Sci Fi depicts
-future -aliens - robots -other worlds -space craft -future tech -time travel
Sci Fi provides
Social commentary about present or DANGERS of future
Sci Fi in future says
“WHAT IF”
Sci Fi explores
Aesthetics of destruction
Sci Fi mistrust
Mistrust of intellectuals, e.g. scientists
Woman Bombers shed
true selves
Woman Bombers made easier to look evil if they looked
French
Delicateness of woman bombers
humanized and sexualizes as delicate while weaponizing them
ending shot BoA
Woman protesting w/ flag, foreshadowing and taunting french
Sci Fi audiences are
ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS, we are answering what the film asks
Alphaville by
Jean Luc Godard
Alphaville product of
French New Waves
SciFi has been vital film genre since silent era b/c of ______ & ______ of content
flexibility & variability
1930s-1950s scifi was
a buncha low budget b-movies
who turned to scifi in 60s
french new wave directors
what is reflected in sci fi
metaphors for our current condition
Susan Sontag said sci fi was concerned with what as a result of?
aesthetics of destruction as a result of misuse of tech/science
Dehumanizing aspects of modernity ex
robots (obedient & heartless)
Out of all genres, scifi most linked to
questions of morality
scifi directs us to _____ & gives us
directs us to a better future even if through a disastrous one, and calls us to action
A Clockwork Orange warns agains
Foucauldian disciplinary procedures
Terminator 2 warns against
becoming machine-like and losing our singularity through replication/replacement
