1. Examples may include: Definition: Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not necessarily accepted by mainstream science. extra-terrestrial life forms extra-sensory perception monsters catastrophes pandemics time travel often along with futuristic elements such as spacecrafts, robots, cyborgs, space travel or other technologies.

2. This film type is based on some degree of scientific truth. Characteristics: Science fiction films have often been used to focus on political or social issues and to explore philosophical issues like the human condition.

3. Characteristics: They often portray the dangerous and sinister nature of knowledge. There are some things man is not meant to know or do.

4. Characteristics: Sci-fi tales have a prophetic nature (they often attempt to figure out or depict the future) and are often set in a speculative future time. They may provide a bleak outlook, portraying a view of the world that appears grim, decayed, and unnerving.

5. Some films show science as a betterment to society or aliens that are not hell-bent on destroying the world or taking over mankind. Characteristics: Science fiction often expresses the potential of technology to destroy humankind through Armageddon-like events, wars between worlds, Earth-imperiling encounters or disasters.

6. In fantasy films, the viewer is supposed to accept the characters and settings as being unreal without hesitation. Science Fiction vs Fantasy: Science fiction is predominantly a version of fantasy films. Science fiction films use science-based depictions of imaginary elements.

7. Science Fiction vs Fantasy: While science fiction films attempt to make us believe what we’re seeing, fantasy films instead attempt to suspend our disbelief. In science fiction the audience expects some degree of plausibility because of its explanation through science.

8. Science Fiction vs Fantasy: While science is a major element of this genre, many movie studios take significant liberties with what is considered conventional scientific knowledge. The "science" in a Hollywood science fiction movie can be considered pseudo-science, mostly relying on special effects rather than scientific theory.

9. Science Fiction and Horror: Science Fiction overlaps with horror when the storylines play into our own primal fears.

10. The difference between the horror and the science-fiction film is that the victims in the horror film are presented as completely helpless and there is a sense of inevitable death. Science Fiction and Horror:

11. The science-fiction film shows more resilience to the creature or monster because of the advancement in technology and experiments.

12. Types of Science Fiction Films: Aliens Early films often used alien life forms as a threat or peril to the human race, where the invaders were frequently fictional representations of a feared foreign power. The concept of extra- terrestrial life is a popular staple of science fiction films.

13. Types of Science Fiction Films: Disasters These often address a particular concern, serving as a vehicle of warning against a type of activity, such as technological research or ignoring environmental concerns. A frequent theme among science fiction films is an impending or actual disaster on an epic scale.

14. Types of Science Fiction Films: Disasters Environmental These films fall into the following general categories: The world is threatened by a natural disaster.

15. Types of Science Fiction Films: Disasters Nuclear war These films fall into the following general categories: usually in the form of a post-holocaust tale of grim survival or tragedy.

16. Types of Science Fiction Films: Disasters Pandemic These films fall into the following general categories: A highly lethal disease common often created by man, threatens humanity in plague.

17. Types of Science Fiction Films: Monsters Monsters in science fiction films differ from similar films in the horror or fantasy genres because science fiction films typically rely on a pseudo-scientific rationale for the monster's existence, rather than a supernatural or magical reason.

18. Types of Science Fiction Films: SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE TRIVIA Do you recognize the leading actress in the 1933 film, The Invisible Man? It’s Gloria Stewart who played “Old Rose” from Titanic.

19. Types of Science Fiction Films: Monsters The science fiction film monster is created, awakened, or "evolves" because of the workings of a mad scientist, a nuclear accident, or a scientific experiment gone awry.

20. Types of Science Fiction Films: Robots One popular theme in science fiction film is whether robots will someday replace humans or whether intelligent robots could develop a consciousness and a motivation to take over or destroy the human race.

21. Types of Science Fiction Films: Time Travel Time travel usually involves the use of some type of advanced technology to travel back and forth through time.

22. Types of Science Fiction Films: Time Travel Some films show time travel attained from an inner source or personal power … … or through some unexplained phenomenon.

23. History of Science Fiction Films: Early Films 1902’s A Trip to the Moon used primitive trick photography to create the special effect of a spacecraft’s journey to the moon. Science fiction films were among the earliest types of motion pictures.

24. History of Science Fiction Films: Early Films Several films merged the science-fiction and horror film types during this time period (Frankenstein-1931; The Invisible Man- 1933).

25. History of Science Fiction Films: Early Films In the 1920s, European filmmakers tended to use science fiction films for prediction and social commentary, as can be seen in German film Metropolis (1926).

26. History of Science Fiction Films: Early Films It featured a socially- controlled futuristic city with a beautiful but sinister female robot named Maria (probably the first robot in a feature film, and later providing the inspiration for George Lucas' C3-PO in Star Wars). Even today, the film is acclaimed for its original, futuristic sets and mechanized society themes.

27. History of Science Fiction Films: 1930s Films In the 1930s, the most popular films were the low-budget, less-serious, space exploration tales portrayed in the popular, cliff-hanger Saturday matinee serials with the first two science-fiction heroes Flash Gordon and Buck Rodgers.

28. History of Science Fiction Films: 1930s Films In the 1930s, the most popular films were the low-budget, less-serious, space exploration tales portrayed in the popular, cliff-hanger Saturday matinee serials with the first two science-fiction heroes Flash Gordon and Buck Rodgers.

29. History of Science Fiction Films: 1950s The 1950s is considered the “Golden Age of Science Fiction Films” Science fiction films during the 1950’s had corny dialogue, poor screenplays, bad acting, and poor production values.

30. History of Science Fiction Films: 1950s In response to a growing interest in space exploration, feature- length space travel films gained popularity. They examined themes such as space travel that also produced the idea of creatures traveling from space to earth.

31. History of Science Fiction Films: 1950s Many sci-fi films of the 1950s portrayed the human race as victims of mysterious, hostile, and unfriendly forces.

32. History of Science Fiction Films: 1950s 50s sci-fi reflected the fears and evils of the time that included threats from political powers and the dangers of aliens taking over our minds, our country, and even our bodies (alien forces and monsters were often a metaphor for Communism). Many of these films were horror/sci-fi hybrids.

33. History of Science Fiction Films: 1950s UFO sightings and reports of flying saucers or strange visitors from outer space found their way into Hollywood features as allegories of the Cold War.

34. History of Science Fiction Films: 1960s Though dramas dominated the 1960s, one movie transformed the science fiction film type. Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) brought new realism to the genre with its groundbreaking visual effects and realistic portrayal of space travel.

35. History of Science Fiction Films: 1960s Though dramas dominated the 1960s, one movie transformed the science fiction film type. It influenced the filmmaking with its epic story and scope, and after this film, the science fiction film genre was taken more seriously.

36. History of Science Fiction Films: 1960s Movies have always reflected the social and cultural issues of the times; the 60s challenged social awareness with the sci-fi film Planet of the Apes.

37. History of Science Fiction Films: 1970s The 70s saw a resurgence of the sci-fi film as advancements were made in technology and as popular ideas from the 1960s were further explored.

38. History of Science Fiction Films: 1970s Many films examined political, environmental and global concerns such as overpopulation and a mistrust of government and man was his worst enemy.

39. History of Science Fiction Films: 1970s In the late 1970s, big-budget science fiction films filled with special effects became popular with audiences. Space was the fascination as the 70s waned. The long awaited resurrection of the 60s Star Trek franchise was begun.

40. History of Science Fiction Films: 1970s In the late 1970s, big-budget science fiction films filled with special effects became popular with audiences. Space was the fascination as the 70s waned. Close Encounters of the Third Kind provided a promising look at subject that had been treated harshly in the past.

41. History of Science Fiction Films: 1970s In the late 1970s, big-budget science fiction films filled with special effects became popular with audiences. Space was the fascination as the 70s waned. The hybrid horror and science fiction movie Alien closed out the 70s with deceit and mistrust of the powers that be.

42. History of Science Fiction Films: 1970s and 80s It also helped to blur the distinction between the science fiction, fantasy, and adventure film types. Star Wars created a legacy that has spanned three generations. But no science fiction movie of the 70s had the impact that one had…

43. History of Science Fiction Films: 1980s Audiences continued to visit a galaxy far far away in the 1980s. And an alien from a distant galaxy visited a young boy on earth.

44. History of Science Fiction Films: 1980s and 90s The 80s and 90s saw tremendous advancements in filmmaking technologies, and technology was a prominent exploitation in films both creatively and as film subjects.

45. History of Science Fiction Films: 1980s and 90s The films of these decades explored the possibilities of aliens and technology. But they also looked at the dangers and man’s potential to be destroyed by technology.

46. History of Science Fiction Films: 1980s and 90s As DNA science advanced, so did man’s ability to “play God.” Movies of the 90s often warned of man’s arrogant management of science.

47. History of Science Fiction Films: 1990s Themes of the 50s and 60s were common in the 90s with a more sophisticated look.

48. History of Science Fiction Films: Toward the end of the 1990s, movies emphasized the destruction of the world by some outside natural force. The new millennium By the turn of the century filmmakers continue with gloomy themes of global catastrophes and man’s self-annihilation.

49. History of Science Fiction Films: The new millennium Films of the new millennium continue to visit familiar themes of the past as science fiction movies attempt to predict (or warn) the movie- going audience about what lies ahead.

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