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Cyberpunk "movie Three Motif Research

Posted on:2013-03-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W K LinFull Text:PDF
GTID:2245330374977092Subject:Radio and Television Arts
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Cyberpunk is a new genre from the development of science fiction.Since80s last century, this science fiction genre has been impacting onthe mainstream culture in all fields, such as science fictions, movies,computer games etc. The cyberpunk movie, which we are going tostudy in this article, captures a broad attention for its unique angle andstyle. The cyberpunk movie has historical affiliations with science fictionphylogeny and utopian literature. Otherwise, three keywords havebeen listed in the article under the context of the time. For the study ofcyberpunk movie, we discover three pervasive motifs appearing in thiskind movie, and make an intensive study of the features of thecyberpunk movie in this article.This article includes three parts: introduction, text, and conclusion.In the first part, it shows the definition of cyberpunk movie, a briefintroduction of the theoretical research, and the writer’s intention of thisstudy.There are four parts of the text.In the first chapter, it mainly discusses the history and context ofcyberpunk movie. As one of the genres in the fields of science fictions,its generation and development are closely related to the phylogeny ofscience fiction. And the utopian evolvement also boosts its creation.Furthermore, the contemporary context means a lot to the cyberpunkmovie. Computer technique, postmodern theory and globalizationbecome three keywords to figure the contemporary context ofcyberpunk movie.From chapter two to chapter four, we study the motif of cyberpunkmovie. Based on the different contents, we divide it into three motifs:cyber space, artificial intelligence, and anti-utopia. There are twoinfluences of cyber space: abruption of the view of time and space and vanish of the authority, which come into being the unique style ofcyberpunk movie deconstructing the world. Under artificial intelligence,we analyze the contradiction of the predicament of the identity andman-machine game, with which we can discover that cyberpunkmovie has a special preference to bran-new life themes and a furtherthink of living space. Anti-utopia substantially means a future possibleform with human civilized development. In cyberpunk movies,anti-utopia usually relates to an immense system. Breakout of humannature needs to face the collision of the free will and determinism underthis cyberpunk system. Otherwise, for anti-utopia, commercializedsociety also reveals the nature of pursuing interests in this chapter.Chapter five is the part of conclusion. In this part, we discuss theend of Meta narration in cyberpunk movies and point put thatcyberpunk movies point to an open narrating space. We compare thereality under guidance of cyberpunk movie to a world with “fogwindow”. At last, we put up the summarization and expectation of thefuture world of cyberpunk movie.
Keywords/Search Tags:cyberpunk, science fiction, postmodernism, fog windoweffect
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