SciFi Cinema
I was recently asked to prepare a lecture and class on SciFi as a film genre. The audience was intended as new/young film school students who despite having seen a lot of 'SciFi' still defined the genre as anything with aliens, robots and/or space ships.
Its not easy to distill a broad, dynamic and highly intricate genre to 30minutes; moreover to make it wholly relevant to filmmaking practice not just navel gazing theoretical study. The result is a fairly focused look at the core tennets of SciFi
- The WHAT IF scenario
- The transgression of the 'System'
- The exploration of the 'human'
and
- The Bisociation of the SciFi world
If you like SciFi and are intrigued by those ideas - of if you just want to learn why Alien and Star Wars are NOT Science Fiction - then you can peruse the slides and notes from the lecture along with the video examples on my website.
www.mikejones.net.au
Posted at 12:00AM Nov 26, 2009
by Mike Jones in moving image theory |
Posted by Ricky Grove on November 26, 2009 at 03:58 AM EST #