 English
192: Science Fiction Study Sheet
Time and Place: June
11, 7:30-10:30PM in Buchanan 1910
Format of the final exam:
- Matching key terms
(25%)
- identifications (25%)
will come from those texts and films discussed in lecture.
- Out of four essay questions,
select two to write on. (25% each)
The final exam will cover
the whole course. However, added emphasis will be put on texts and films
we have studied since the mid-term.
Suggestions
on how to study for the exam.
Armed with the course texts, your lecture notes, this review sheet,
and the on-line notes used by me during lectures, move sequentially
through the course, reviewing the meaning of key terms listed below.
Identify passages of texts and films that were discussed in lecture
by noting the text, speaker, and significance of the passage. Finally,
review ideas on the following four principle topics. The TA s and I
will develop essay questions on these four topics. In writing your essay,
you will be given a choice of five or six listed texts and films. You
must discuss at least three.
- Humans and their technology
- Gender and/in science
fiction
- Dystopian and utopian
worlds and ideas
- Cultural relativism
in the contact zone between peoples and species
Key
terms, names and concepts from this course
Defining
s/f:
dislocation
Novem
formula
fiction
Hugo Gernsback
Frankenstein
the monster
the
contact zone
Metropolis
Fritz
Lang
Maria
The
robot
underground
factory and city
class
struggle
John
Frederson
Freder
The
Time Machine:
Eloi
Morlocks
Time Traveler
fourth
dimension
duration
Palace
of Green Porcelain
end
of the Sun
The
War of the Worlds
Martian
anatomy
heat-ray
cylinder
black
Smoke
red weed
London
the curate
the artilleryman
tentacles
Darwinism
The Mercury
Theater of the Air
I,
Robot
meanings of the robot in s/f
Robbie
Curie’s use of reason
the three laws of robotics
Dr. Susan
Calvin
RB-34 (or Herbie)
Nestor 10
Stephen Byerley
Francis Quinn
the Society of Humanity
The Brain
Forbidden Planet
Morbius
and Robby
Left
Hand of Darkness
The
anthropological investigator
Gethen
shifgrethor.
Karhide
Genly Ai
Estraven
sommer
and kemmer
Orgoreyn
Le
Guin’s humanism
the
noble Indian
The
Stepford Wives
Stepford
Men’s Association: what do they want?
Joanna
Walter
Bobbie
“perfection”
special effects
feminist
critique of male desire
2001:
A Space Odyssey
humans and their tools
Dawn of
Man
the monolith
One-Ear
TMA-1 (or Tycho Magnetic Anomaly-One)
Heywood Floyd
Discovery
HAL
Dave
Frank
Poole
1:4:9
the Stargate
Aliens
as light
Clark versus Kubrick
“Star
Trek” Q-Who, I, Borg
the borg
the prime
directive
cultural
relativism
self-referentiality
Blade
Runner
The concept
of dystopia
Retrofitting, by adding the future to the past
Tyrell
Corporation
Replicant
Rachael
Deckard
Pris
Film noir
femme fatale
Blade
Runner as revising s/f’s “extraordinary people doing extraordinary things
in space”
“The Gernsback
Continuum” by William Gibson
utopia/dystopia
Dialta
Downes
Thirties
and forties architecture
Semiotic
ghost
“Alpha
Ralpha Boulevard” by Cordwainer Smith
Paul and Virginia
Macht
Abba-dingo
Dystopian
narrative
a “run”
to freedom
“Johnny
Mnemonic” by Thomas Gibson
cyborg
Lo Tek
Molly
Millions
Dolphin
The killing
floor
Masculinity
“blind
receptacle”
Nighttown
“Burning
Chrome” by Thomas Gibson
Chrome
Automatic
Jack
Bobby
Quine
Rikki
I.C.E.
Chiba
City
Console
cowboy
Simstim
The House
of Blue Lights
The Gentleman
Loser
cyberpunk
Visualizing
Science Fiction
the
non-human "others" of S/F
icon
typology of s/f other: humanoid versus creaturely; machine/computer
versus biogenetic
Renaissance
shading and perspective
storyboards
compositing
morphing:
pre-digital versus digital
cyberspace
a “consensual hallucination”
interface
The Matrix
aesthetic hybrid: comics and cyberpunk
unprecedented power…and freedom
the desert of the real
the Construct
squiddies
bullet-time
the red pill
Thomas Anderson
EMP
the Oracle
Cypher
Zion
Nebuchadnezzar
Duracell battery
residual
self-image
a
history lesson
red
pill
Zion
"Buckle
your seatbelt, Dorothy, cuz Kansas is going bye-bye."
Agents
bullet
time
"the
future is our time."
healing
the mind/body split
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