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EK Sparks
Daily Glossary For Science
Fiction Film
Spring 2006
Day 2: Definitions
| Day 3:Hero's Journey | Day 4: Star Wars
| Day 5:History | Day
6: Metropolis | Day 7: Iconography | Day
8: Thing & Day Earth Stod Still | Day 9:Invasion
of BS & THEM | Day 10: | Day 11: | Day 12: |
Day 13 and 14: 2001 |
Merriam
Webster 11th Collegiate
Internet
Movie Data Base Glossary
Day
2: Defining Science Fiction Film
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Romance
-- (EKS)
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Frye: mode
- myth, romance, high and low mimetic, irony
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utopian/
dystopian
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mythoi--
(Fyre)
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epistemology
-- study of how we know
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archetype--
(EKS) greek word for "old form", repeated symbols, plots,
etc. (
See Oxford)
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liminal:
in between place/ transitional zone MW11: "Etymology: Latin limin-, limen
threshold: of or relating to a sensory threshold; barely perceptible"
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crepuscular--
(EKS) of or relating to twlight
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Semantic
and syntactical -- semantic (having to do
with meaning) syntactical (having to do with grammar-- how meanings
are strung together)
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semantic
characteristics of SF film: objects such as spaceships, robots, ;
characters such as scientistis, rocket pilots, computer whizzes,
; themse such as alien invasions, world domination, post-apocalyptic scenerios,
; settings such as sapce, galxay faRR FAR AWAY,
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SYNTACTICAL:
plots:
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Synchronic
and diachronic --
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paradigmatic
and syntagmatic -- explanation
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example
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Marvelous,
fantasic and uncanny (Telotte)
Day 5: History of SF Film (Telotte 3 and Dresser)
- Ideology --
- sui generis -- constituting a class alone : UNIQUE, PECULIAR
- doppelganger :
- lost worlds
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space opera
Day 6:
Metropolis
Day 3:
Hero's Journey
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Myth--(Frye)
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Romance (Frye)
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High and Low Mimetic (Frye)
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Sentimental (Frye)
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Tragedy vs. Comdey (Frye)
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Agon (Frye)
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Pathos (Frye)
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Anagnorisis (Frye)
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leviathan (Frye)
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sparagmos (Greek):
ritual dismemberment, death, disfiguration (literally "tering apart,
as Dionysius is torn apart in the Bacchae)
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Eiron (Frye)
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Alazon (Frye)
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Buffoon (Frye)
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Agroikos (Frye)
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The Hanged
Man: Tarot image of rebirth/ resurection. The
Tarot Card
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apotheosis:
becoming a god. MW 11: "elevation to divine status : DEIFICATION; the perfect
example : QUINTESSENCE <this is the literary apotheosis of the shaggy
dog story -- Thomas Sutcliffe>" Dickey describes napalm as "the apotheosis
of gelatin" in his poem "The Firebombing"
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Separation/
Initiation/ Return -- three stages of the monomyth
according to Joseph Campbells
Day 3: Star Wars
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space opera (Gordon/Aldiss):
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Psycho-drama
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ideology of individualism (Rubey)
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family romance (Rubey)
Day
7: SF and the Fifties/ Iconography of Monster Movies
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Id (Tarratt)--
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psychological functions (Jung/
Lucanio)
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Classic vs Prometheus variation
of hero (Lucanio)
Day 8:
Thing and Day the Earth Stood Still
Day 9: Invasion
of the Body Snatchers and THEM!
Day 10:
Day
11:
Day 12:
Day 13 and 14: 2001
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diagetic
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Match Cut
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Shock cut
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Rear pojection/ front projection
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Day 14: