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FURTHER READINGS

Sept 8. Aelita
Orton, A. J., Science Fiction of the Domestic. Iakov Protazanov’s Aelita. Central Europe Review 2,(1), Jan 2000

Sept 22 Mars Attacks
Woof, W., In Praise of Tim Burton: Finding the Masterpiece in Mars Attacks!. Kinema Spring 1998

Hayward, P. Interplanetary Soundclash: Music, Technology and Territorialization in Mars Attacks!Convergence 5 (47) 1999

Sept. 29 War Games

Brown, S. War Games: A Look Back at the Film that Turned Geeks and Phreaks into Stars. Wired Magazine 16.08

levy, Steven. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

Ricker Schulte, S. The “Wargame scenario”. regulating Teenagers and Teenaged Technology Television New Media OnlineFirst. Aug 2008.

Oct. 6 2001 a Space Odyssey

Sontag, S. The Imagination of Disaster, 1965

Fisher, R. B. AI and Cinema – Does Artificial Insanity Rules? AICS 2001 conference proceedings.

Midbon, M. Creation machines: Stanley Kubrick’s view of computers in 2001. ACM SIGCAS 20 (4) 1990.
Oct 15 – La Jetee

A tribute/collection of articles and notes on and by Chris Marker

Christley, J., Chris Marker, Senses of Cinema

Oct 27 – AI Artificial Intelligence

a Review of A.I. from Film Quaterly 56(2) 2003

Nishime, L., The Mulatto Cyborg: Imagining a Multiracial Future. Cinema Journal 44(2) 2005)

Nov. 3 – Blade Runner

Scott, S.H., Is Blade Runner a Mysoginist Text? 2019 Off-World

Nov. 10 – Ghost in the Shell

Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto

Nov. 24 – Videodrome

Beard, W., Videodrome, in The Artist as Monster. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2006: 121-164.

Redfern, N., Information and Entropy: the Disorganization of narrative in Videodrome, Entertext 4(3) Winter 2004/5

MacKenzie, S., National Identity, Canadian Cinema, and Multiculturalism. Canadian Aesthetics Journal 4. Summer 1999
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HISTORY OF SCIFI
http://www.filmsite.org/sci-fifilms.html

GENERAL REFERENCES
http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/%7Eb2506017/

Time travel movies

Barron, N. (2004). Anatomy of wonder : A critical guide to science fiction fifth edition Libraries Unlimited.
Rickman, G. (2004). The science fiction film reader. New York : Limelight Editions.
Sanders, S. (2008). The philosophy of science fiction film Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2008.
Telotte, J. P. (2001). Science fiction film. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

SCIENCE FICTION AND CULTURAL ISSUES

Meehan, P. (2008). Tech-noir: The fusion of science fiction and film noir Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2008.
Nama, A. (2008). Black space: Imagining race in science fiction film University of Texas Press