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GenresScience Fiction
Science Fiction• Cinematic roots in “trick
films”• Georges Melies’ A Trip to the
Moon
• Used double exposure, miniature models, stop-action jump cuts, in-camera mattes
• Simulated fantastic worlds, unexpected optical effects, and alterations of time and space
Science Fiction• Emerged as a major genre in the
1950s--Cold War era
• Inspired by society’s anxieties over• Developments in space
exploration
• Nuclear weapons
• Communism
Society’s anxieties were reflected in film
• The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Science Fiction
• The literature of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells provided stories for Sci-Fi films
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• The Time Machine
Science Fiction
Big Bang Boys Get a Time Machine
• Initially, Sci-Fi did not really last more than a decade
• Resurgence by Stanley Kubrick in the late 60s
• 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968)
• Planet of the Apes (1968)
Science Fiction
• Series that kept Sci-Fi genre alive for 25 years
• Star Trek
• Star Wars
• Jurassic Park
Science Fiction
• Sci-Fi lends itself to utopian visions of the future
…however...
• They seem to end up revealing the opposite...
A dark, pessimistic view seeing
a decaying environment,
antidemocratic government,
ruthless corporations controlling the world
Science Fiction
Science Fiction
EXAMPLES
• Gattaca
• Robocop
• Minority Report
• Elysium
What films can you name that fall into this genre or subgenre?
Science Fiction gives form to contemporary doubt while conjuring magic tricks
Reflection society’s anxieties about the present and the direction for the future