Essays on Science Fiction Film

The 1980s was a complex era of transition, which saw the rise of military power, but also the emergence of new technology, as the fight against communist threats intensified. During this decade, the sci-fi genre reached immense popularity, and was closely related to the new blockbuster films which Hollywood exported throughout the world. During this decade, illegal immigration, the memory of the Vietnam War and the transformation of masculinity under the threat of feminism became prominent issues, which were reflected in the popular media of the time. As a genre which is particularly fit to reflect the anxieties and ...

La Jetee (1962) is a French Science fiction film made by Chris Market and is made by using a series of still photographs and with only minimum information rendered through the voice-over. The film uses a unique pattern of images associated witht the life cyle of a man, starting from his childhood to his current state. The prime intention of the director is to create a multi-dimensional impaxt of the time variance by creating a photo-book sort of experience for the audience so that they are able to glance and connect the various dimensions of time within the current ...

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Avatar is a science fiction film that was released in 2009. It was directed by famous film director James Cameron. It centered on the story of how humans started an expedition to colonize Pandora, a habitable moon of a gas giant encircling one of the stars in the Alpha Centauri star system, the nearest one from earth. The story was set in the mid-22nd century when the humans from Earth have already depleted all its non-renewable resources and have had no choice but to look for other sources of resources outside. A team of explorers were set to examine ...