Film Studies 591SF - S-Int'l Science Fiction Cinema

This course provides an introduction to international science fiction cinema. The course will include films from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, and may include films made using a variety of techniques including stop-motion animation, cell and/or digital animation, and various forms of CGI. The course will consider films in their social context, including both the historical, social, and economic contexts in which they were created and distributed, and the history of film in their countries of origin. The course will also include considerations of racial and ethnic imagery, gender, and class, both in depictions in the films considered and in society and film industries in which they were produced. The course will also include consideration of the origins in and relationship to international literary science fiction of the films, as well as to scientific understandings of the universe and the practices and context of scientific work.