ENG 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Samosata, Scientific Revolution, Hugo Gernsback
22 Jan 2018
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Pre-eminently print (shifting to digital form now) Pre-eminently visual art: 1950s sound also. Begins as silent media: relies on visual still. Many genres do the same (ex. westerns) Print cool medium abstract black marks on white paper you have to do a lot of the work yourself, imagination. With changing media technology goal of immediacy. Pretend to talk about another world reflecting on our world: frame of another world reflects our world, shine a light on our own world. Possible starting place: the man in the moon, francis goodwin 1638, scientific revolution. 1640 41 bishop wilkins: life on the moon, early handbook on communication, secret code to send messages at distance. Avatar the flying mountains of pandora direct reference to gulli(cid:448)er"s tra(cid:448)els. Frankenstein 1831 very close to science fiction proper: cutting edge contemporary science, new scientific power power over the natural world limited control, reflection of limited capacity to know full implications, multi-media spectacle/phenomenon.
