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Sci Fi NOTES Flashcards

1
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Name Classic Sci Fi

A

Melies TRIP TO THE MOON

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2
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Sci Fi depicts

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-future -aliens - robots -other worlds -space craft -future tech -time travel

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Sci Fi provides

A

Social commentary about present or DANGERS of future

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4
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Sci Fi in future says

A

“WHAT IF”

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5
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Sci Fi explores

A

Aesthetics of destruction

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Sci Fi mistrust

A

Mistrust of intellectuals, e.g. scientists

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7
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Woman Bombers shed

A

true selves

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8
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Woman Bombers made easier to look evil if they looked

A

French

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9
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Delicateness of woman bombers

A

humanized and sexualizes as delicate while weaponizing them

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10
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ending shot BoA

A

Woman protesting w/ flag, foreshadowing and taunting french

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11
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Sci Fi audiences are

A

ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS, we are answering what the film asks

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12
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Alphaville by

A

Jean Luc Godard

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13
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Alphaville product of

A

French New Waves

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14
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SciFi has been vital film genre since silent era b/c of ______ & ______ of content

A

flexibility & variability

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15
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1930s-1950s scifi was

A

a buncha low budget b-movies

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16
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who turned to scifi in 60s

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french new wave directors

17
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what is reflected in sci fi

A

metaphors for our current condition

18
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Susan Sontag said sci fi was concerned with what as a result of?

A

aesthetics of destruction as a result of misuse of tech/science

19
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Dehumanizing aspects of modernity ex

A

robots (obedient & heartless)

20
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Out of all genres, scifi most linked to

A

questions of morality

21
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scifi directs us to _____ & gives us

A

directs us to a better future even if through a disastrous one, and calls us to action

22
Q

A Clockwork Orange warns agains

A

Foucauldian disciplinary procedures

23
Q

Terminator 2 warns against

A

becoming machine-like and losing our singularity through replication/replacement

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