Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporaray Science Fiction Cinema

Anette Kuhn suggests a similar idea to Sobchack that was looked at in the previous post. She sees a trend around the 1980's of humans being considered as being potentially destructuve and digressive rather progressive and superior as often was shown in the past. Perhaps this is a way to help critique our own behaviors and shortcomings as societies and as a race.

"How do changes in the textual conventions of the genre relate to the broader sociocultural contexts?"

-Film and TV has for a long time been a medium for social issues and popular trends to vocalized to and audience. It is suggested that Science fiction is a genre that is able amplify and convey concerns and problems of a time more clearly than any other genre. (P15) (H.L Gold, referring to sci fi literature.)

-Kuhn says that it is inevitable that a genre imagines the future or alternate realities will be used to consider concerns that we have for the future.

"Most Science fiction films tend to disguise, and thereby reveal more schematically, the social or psychological preoccupations of the moment" Gerald Mead and Sam Appelbaum, quoted from Kuhn