FTV10006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Caprica, Cyborg, Science Fiction Convention
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Defining science fiction: fictious use of scientific possibilities, or fiction that takes place in the future, or some radical assumption about the present or the past richard hodgens. Melies, lang and serials: melies a trip to the moon (1902, metropolis fritz lang. Increase in teenage audience- increase in cinema culture and car culture: drive ins flourished, social and political forces shaped the genre, possibility of nuclear war were central concerns within the culture. The invasion narrative: where an alien force either land or infiltrate american society, placing the us under threat of extinction, communist fear. Body snatchers: don siegel"s 1956 film invasion of the body snatchers- the film offers a slow, barely detectable takeover of the us, rather than a direct alien attack, seed pods drift earth and replace humans. Godzilla (ishiro honda) nuclear attacks had wrought incredible genetic mutations: 1960s intellectual interrogations of society, values, reality and humanity (2001: a space odyssey, existential questions of life, death and humanity.
