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52 Episodes to Science Fiction Film Literacy - The Full List with My Notes

10/10/2016

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I've been asked about the full list of 52 Episode, and I went through and found my original list with the thoughts I had initially for each of them! 

­­­52 Episodes
  1. Introduction
  2. A Trip to the Moon - France - Origins of SciFi, effects, Verne, Melies, the first films
  3. A Message From Mars - UK - Silent film, British SciFi, fun!
  4. The Master Mystery - US - Houdini, Serials, ROBOT!!!!
  5. Dr. Jykll and Mr. Hyde - US - Adaptation, Continuity and re-makes, Stephenson
  6. Metropolis - Germany - Set design, lasting influence, political SF, Lang
  7. Frankenstein - US - Universal Monsters, the continuity of Frankenstein Frankenstein NOT EQUAL The Monster. 
  8. The Phantom Empire - US - Will Rogers (or Roy Rodgers?), SciFi and music, Serials, silliness
  9. Buck Rogers - US - Influence of Rogers, comic strips, early effects
  10. The Mechanical Monsters - US - SUPERMAN!!! Comics and Shorts, cartoons, robots
  11. Aerograd – Russia - War and SciFi, Sovietism, cinematography
  12. Rocketship X-M - US - Bad, bad, bad. 1950s SciFi 
  13. The Thing from Another World - US - Howard Hawks, Communist scare, re-makes that are better than the original
  14. Mars and Beyond - US - Documentary, Man and Space, Disney, Von Braun
  15. Robot Monster - US - Terribly B-Flicks, robots, weak storytelling, dumb costumes
  16. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - US - Steampunk, great singing, the one guy with the chin.
  17. Duck Dodgers - US - Warner Bros. cartoons, scifi comedy, cartoons, silliness
  18. Forbidden Planet - US - Great SF of the 1950s, Star Trek inspiration, Leslie Nielsen
  19. The Day the Sky Exploded - Italian - Italian SF, Armegeddon
  20. Plan 9 from Outer Space - US - Ed Wood, Tor Johnson, bad movies with great impact, Creature Features
  21. Mothra - Japan - Tiny Singing Twins! 
  22. La Jetee - short film, still images, time-travel, influence
  23. Dr. Who and the Daleks - Dr. Who, British SF, Peter Cushing
  24. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Weird ending, art house SciFi, unintelligible endings
  25. Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB - Short films, student films, computers
  26. Colossus: The Forbin Project - Computers, war, hubris, Cold War 
  27. Westworld - early computer graphics, neat stories, Brolin, are they re-making this?
  28. Space is the Place - Sun Ra, artsy SciFi, Oakland, AfroFuturism
  29. A Clockwork Orange - Rough SF
  30. Star Wars - The explosion of the last 40 years, Jedis, fandom
  31. Space Battleship Yamoto - Anime, StarBalzers
  32. Hardware Wars - Fan Films, short films, comedy 
  33. Time after Time - Time Travel, HG Wells, ACTING!
  34. Airplane II: The Sequel - Comedy, ZAZ (but also not), Space Shuttle
  35. Dune - BEST DAMN MOVIE EVER! Art Direction, David Lynch
  36. They Live - A fight scene
  37. Morning Patrol - Greek, post-apocolyptic, avant garde, festival SF
  38. The Rocketeer - Dieselpunk, Jennifer COnnely, movie poster, Jennifer Connely
  39. Six String Samurai - Slamdance, rock 'n Roll, Soviet invasion
  40. The Matrix - Bullettime, graphics, Plato's Cave
  41. The Incredibles - Pixar, comics 
  42. Robot Stories - Festival scifi, Greg Pak, anthology film as magazine analog
  43. The Substitute - Danish film, Paprika Steen, dark and funny, Alien
  44. V for Vendetta - anti-authoritarianism, Alan Moore, films as good as the source in a different way
  45. Avatar - most money ever, stolen from LeGuin
  46. Iron Sky - Finland, satire, Chaplin scene, low budget
  47. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog - internet as distribution platform, Whedonesque whedonism, NPH, superhero stories, shorts
  48. Guardians of the Galaxy - Marvel, SciFi comics
  49. Sorry About Tomorrow - Short, 48 hour films, well-directed, time travel
  50. Hyperfutura - avant garde, forms of interaction with narrative, weirdness
  51. Mad Max – Fury Road - empowerment, action, Mad Max universe
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