1. Dystopia
2. Technophobia
3. Alien Contanct
Topic statement and thesis
Talk about Film mentioned below and how these issues are raising within your topic.
Try using these films (include 5 films in the essay): A Trip to the Moon (1902), Metropolis (1962), Things To Come (1936), Forbidden Planet (1956), Richard III (1995), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), THX 1138 (1971), Twelve Monkeys (1995), Colossus: The Forbidden Project (1970), Stalker (1979),The Last Man on Earth (1964), Soylent Green (1973), Blade Runner (1982), The Terminator (1984), Alien (1979), Contact (1997), The Matrix (1999), Avatar (2009).
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------. (1998)."Kubrick's "2001" and the Possibility of a Science-Fiction Cinema.
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