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Media Series - TV
Genre Science Fiction
Media Language - Page 6
Watch the clips and evaluate what is Science Fiction?
What conventions are evident?
Steve Neale suggests that genres exist within particular contexts and develop through borrowing from other texts. e.g. borrowings from mythology, literature, Dan O’Bannon screenwriter for Alien – “It was stolen from everywhere”; art - H.R. Giger
Suggestion
How has the development of science-fiction reflected contemporary ideologies and concerns? Give examples.
e.g. what Brin calls “self-preventing prophecy” - Post-war pacifism; post-apocalyptic themes post-Hiroshima; ecological messages; 1950s Cold War alien (communist) invasion; fear of corporate power and “the Man” and crisis in masculinity reflected in “Alien"
