CIN270Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Science Fiction Film, Fall Of Saigon, Dog Soldiers
11 May 2018
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Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017
CIN270Y1
CLASS 23
Spectacular Acts: Action Cinema in the 1980s
EXAM OUTLINE – 3-6PM Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Part 1: multiple choice + fill-in-the-blank (10 questions, 20 marks total)
Part 2: respond to 4/5 questions – complete sentence answers (7 marks each, 28 marks total)
Part 3: compose essay, select ½ - 6-8 paragraphs (26 marks total)
Part 4: clip analysis essay, questions will guide answer – 6-8 paragraphs (
***Aliens will not be on the midterm exam
“Alien Abduction?”
• Similar to the “Indian abduction” in John Wayne Westerns
Mixed Genres: Multivalent Texts (Rick Altman)
• Why are genres (always) mixed?
1. Excess material
2. Multiple framing – imagine an object being photographed against shifting
backgrounds (against the fantast background, Luke is the hero saving Leia but
against the Western background, it is his coming-of-age story)
3. Filmic multivalency – we can determine emphases within a film (Star Wars wants
to be all things for all people)
4. “multifocalization” – we must ask, “Whose story is this?” (and then based on that
character, what genre do we now find ourselves in) ***possible test question
Aliens (1986)
• this is also a mixed genre work
• like Close Encounters and Star Wars, it is a science fiction film
• but it is also a horror film and an action film
• according to Cameron, it is a “futuristic military movie”
• 1980s combat film about “dog soldiers”
The 1960s & 1970s
• in the 1960s, American ideals were questioned
• the key principles of capitalist ideology were challenged
• critique continued, but withered in the 1970s
• disillusionment: excessive consumerism, inflation, unemployment, American self-
doubt…
The Vietnam War
• the biggest knock to America’s self-confidence: defeat in Vietnam
• a failure and disaster, it still haunts
• beginning in 1961, the war was conceived as a battle against Communism
• the South Vietnamese had to be “liberated” from Soviet & North Vietnamese influence…
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Document Summary
Exam outline 3-6pm tuesday, december 5, 2017. Part 1: multiple choice + fill-in-the-blank (10 questions, 20 marks total) Part 2: respond to 4/5 questions complete sentence answers (7 marks each, 28 marks total) Part 3: compose essay, select - 6-8 paragraphs (26 marks total) Part 4: clip analysis essay, questions will guide answer 6-8 paragraphs ( ***aliens will not be on the midterm exam. Alien abduction? : similar to the indian abduction in john wayne westerns. The 1960s & 1970s in the 1960s, american ideals were questioned the key principles of capitalist ideology were challenged: critique continued, but withered in the 1970s, disillusionment: excessive consumerism, inflation, unemployment, american self- doubt . Thursday, nov. 30, 2017 famous photo accidental napalm highlights how the iconography isn"t what. Hollywood would have wanted to represent the american government failed to consider one matter others might not want its.
