SF Film Series

  This film screening series will accompany the third-year optional module on Science Fiction that I'm teaching in the Autumn term 2012.

Week 1 | Origins

Le Voyage dans La Lune (1902) (dir. Georges Méliès)

Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) (dir. Yakov Protazanov)

Week 2 | Scientific Romance

Things to Come (1936) (dir. William Cameron Menzies, screenplay by H. G. Wells)

 

Week 3 | Robots

Metropolis (1927) (dir. Fritz Lang)

 

Week 4 | Alternate History

Blade Runner (1982) (dir. Ridley Scott)

 

Week 5 | Eco-Catastrophe

On the Beach (1959) (dir. Stanley Kramer)

Week 6 | Space Exploration

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) (dir. Stanley Kubrick)

Week 7 | Postcolonial SF

District 9 (2009) (dir. Neill Blomkamp)

Week 8 | Feminist SF

Tales from Earthsea (2006) (dir. Gorō Miyazaki)

Week 9 | Cyberpunk

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) (dir. Shinya Tsukamoto)

Week 10 | The Graphic Novel

Watchmen (2009) (dir. Zack Snyder)

Week 11 | Radical Fantasy

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) (dir. Guillermo del Toro)