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.
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Week 1 | Origins Le Voyage dans La Lune (1902) (dir. Georges Méliès) Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) (dir. Yakov Protazanov) |
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Week 2 | Scientific Romance Things to Come (1936) (dir. William Cameron Menzies, screenplay by H. G. Wells) |
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Week 3 | Robots Metropolis (1927) (dir. Fritz Lang) |
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Week 4 | Alternate History Blade Runner (1982) (dir. Ridley Scott) |
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Week 5 | Eco-Catastrophe On the Beach (1959) (dir. Stanley Kramer) |
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Week 6 | Space Exploration 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) (dir. Stanley Kubrick) |
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Week 7 | Postcolonial SF
District 9 (2009) (dir. Neill Blomkamp) |
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Week 8 | Feminist SF/F Tales from Earthsea (2006) (dir. Gorō Miyazaki) |
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Week 9 | Cyberpunk Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) (dir. Shinya Tsukamoto) |
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Week 10 | The Graphic Novel Watchmen (2009) (dir. Zack Snyder) |
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Week 11 | Radical Fantasy Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) (dir. Guillermo del Toro) |
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Featured image by James Vaughan under a CC BY-NC-SA license.
Dr Caroline Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research and teaching specialisms are in 21st century literature and critical theory, science fiction and post-apocalyptic narratives, Marxist aesthetics, and utopianism.
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