Sci-Fi and Sociohistorical context
Important definitions
Allegory; metaphorically representative of something which has happened, for example - Animal Farm being a political allegory for Russia.
ALLEGORY - A metaphor which makes a broader comment on society
-Zeitgeist; current feeling, process, events etc. Right now, examples would be the COVID-19 pandemic and the presidential election.
ZEITGEIST - The spirit of time
In what ways does humans use genre conventions to explore real-world issues?
- The 'synth' women are used as sex slaves, due to the presumption of their unconscience state of mind, this explores the modern-world presumption that women are to be used and will not mind.
- There is a heavy sexualisation of the women, and Anita is immediately sexualised as anchored by the close-up shot of her backside.
- The unpaid labour narrative
- The negotiation of exoticism - Anita is the only south-east asian woman, showing the director is exoticising her.
- Sexual explotation
- Modern slavery - workers being unpaid as explored through the farming narrative
- Commodity fetishism - Anita is a computer before she develops a conscience, she has become fetishised in so many ways
- Full automation - when machines gain further intelligence
- The rights of workers
- Late period capitalism vs Marxism
- Post-colonialism - the foundations of colonialism are still embedded into our society, despite perhaps being subtle.
- Transgression
- Nuclear family
- Postmodernism
- Hyperreality
- Polysemy
- Racism
- Singularity
- Diegesis and relationship with the fictive
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