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I know I shouldn’t really write this here – I suspect a few sci-fi fans on this course – but I’m struggling to bring myself to view – let alone write about – some of the more sci-fi-ish films. On an abstract level, I totally get the idea that genre fiction can do “big themes”. For [...] Second thoughts on Worldbuilder – actually a very depressing film about male desire. Here’s the narrative, such as it is: man creates cyber world for girlfriend/would-be girlfriend; girlfriend/would-be girlfriend gambols delightedly though idealised cyber dreamworld, observed, without her knowing it, by her admirer/lover, until called back to the reality of the intensive care ward. The flower has [...] Bell refers to cyberpunk as providing ‘a cognitive map of human-computer interaction’. For me, this reference adds weight to the stereotypical image of digital culture being populated by personalities more confident in cyber society than mainstream f2f interaction: the geeks, teckies, sci-fi buffs, etc. Watching Week 2’s Film Festival took me out my comfort zone. [...] |
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