(Taken from my own academic writing from university)
The cyborg is a key staple in modern science fiction which, as with so many other aspects of the genre, has come to represent a myriad of ideas and anxieties, discussions that become more and more pressing as we plunge further into the future. As Christine Corena explains, the cyborg represents the “literal melding of what [was] previously seen as separate and divided”, the human and the machine, as well as the…
(Taken from my own academic writing from university)
In his book “Monsters and Mad Scientists: A Cultural History of the Horror Movie”, Andrew Tutor delves into the causes behind the types of monsters that commonly appear in 'mad scientist’ films, and how this reflects on the fears of a real-world population. As with War of the Worlds and the allegorizing of imperialism in the book (and later terrorism in the 2005 film), these films and their choice of monster can…
Godzilla, to me, is undoubtably one of the most important films of all time, more specifically within Japanese cinema. Giving voice to a censored nation after nearly a decade of occupation as one of the first Hibakusha films, the film really strives to show audiences of the time the horrors of atomic weapons in the guise of a lumbering reptilian force of nature. The scenes of Godzilla itself still hold up relatively well, considering this is a nearly 70 year…
I think it's a real shame more people aren't giving this film the time of day because I genuinely think It's one of the best music biopics to come out in recent memory. Unlike some of it's contemporaries, Better Man isn't afraid to be authentic in it's depiction of it's subject of interest (in spite of being portrayed by a CGI Monkey), making use of some incredible filmmaking to vividly portray the soaring highs and crushing lows of being in…
