science fiction film genre: science fiction film is a film genre which emphasizes actual,...

Science Fiction Film Genre: Science fiction film is a film genre which emphasizes actual, extrapolative, or speculative science and the empirical method, interacting in a social context with the lesser emphasized, but still present, transcendentalism of magic and religion, in an attempt to reconcile man with the unknown (Sobchack 63).

War of Worlds Preface.

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Some topics SF film explore range from: The End of the World Scenarios,

Artificial Intelligence, Alien Abduction & Takeover, and Germ & Bio

Warfare.

--All SF films feature humans in some form, usually they are fighting for

their lives or their lifestyle/planet, enabling instant connection for the

spectator.

--Survival is universal, we can all connect.

-- All SF films utilize some form of Jungian Archetype like Us Vs Them, Man

Vs Animal,

Man Vs Other.

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Narrative Premise in Science Fiction Film.

What is the Studium?

What is the Punctum?

Spectrum or Spectacle?

Propaganda?

“In making attack unreal, industrial warfare ceased to be that huge funeral apparatus denounced by

moralists and eventually became the greatest mystification of all: an

apparatus of deception.” Paul Virilio

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Spectrum: the individual/sociological value placed on the image by the

spectator including place in history.

Punctum: the important detail created by the Operator for the viewer. In SF film this would be the underlying social message or

cause for the film.

Omega Man. Chap 6 Russian Fear

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SF Narrative Vs Documentary.

Does it change the film’s purpose?

Can narratives more freely reflect upon society? Which reflects our social issues and fears more clearly?

Werner Herzog: REALITY . “Lessons of

Darkness”. Real footage of bombs over Baghdad.

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Film and War

War and Film have benefited each other. Film’s first major use was to document war.

-Cameras, stock, and equipment have been enhanced due to their use for war.

-Most names of film equipment come from their war use.

Paul Virilio states “the landscape of war became cinematic” in regards to the use of AV and modern warfare. J.P. Telotte notes that “with recent conflicts, the key fallout of this visual kinship is that warfare itself becomes a kind of detached spectacle, an image as divorced from real destruction of objects and bodies it entails as any generic war film…”

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