FILM 324 - Seminar in Science Fiction

Institution:

Bard College

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Description:

A critical examination of science fiction film from the silent era to today, with a special focus on the relationship between science fiction and the avant-garde. Readings include essays by Susan Sontag, Parker Tyler, Annette Michelson, Vivian Sobchak, Jean Baudrillard, and Scott Bukatman, as well as fiction by J. G. Ballard, Ursula Le Guin, Hugo Gernsback, Bruce Sterling, Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, and others. Topics include visualizing technology, gender, and sexuality; alien and robot as human countertype; futurism, utopia, and dystopia; Cold War and post-ColdWar politics as seen through science fiction; camp and parody; the depiction of consciousness and interior states; abstraction, special effects, and the sublime; counterfactuals and alternative history; and the poetics of science fiction language. Past course work in film is required.

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4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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