Many other SF films feature time travels or fantastic journeys, and are set either on Earth, into outer space, or (most often) into the future time. Sci-fi films are complete with heroes, distant planets, impossible quests, improbable settings, fantastic places, great dark and shadowy villains, futuristic technology and gizmos, and unknown and inexplicable forces. Science Fiction Films are usually scientific, visionary, comic-strip-like, and imaginative, and usually visualized through fanciful, imaginative settings, expert film production design, advanced technology gadgets (i.e., robots and spaceships), scientific developments, or by fantastic special effects.
Dystopic stories have been especially influential on postmodernism, as writers and film-makers imagine the effects of various aspects of our current postmodern condition, for example, the world's take-over by machines (The Matrix) the social effects of the hyperreal (Neuromancer) a society completely run by media commercialism (The Running Man) the triumph of late capitalism (Blade Runner) bureaucratic control run amok (Brazil, 1984) and so on. DYSTOPIA (dystopic): An imagined universe (usually the future of our own world) in which a worst-case scenario is explored the opposite of utopia. SCIENCE FICTION \ 2.4 External - 3 Credits Demonstrate understanding of a media genreĢ Dystopia dys⋅to⋅pi⋅a –noun a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding. Presentation on theme: "\ 2.4 External - 3 Credits Demonstrate understanding of a media genre"- Presentation transcript:ġ \ 2.4 External - 3 Credits Demonstrate understanding of a media genre
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