Society+&+Genre+2

=**Society and Genre: 3.4.**= Explain the relationship between a media genre and society**. The Achievement Standard requires you to explain, analyse and evaluate the relationship between society and a media genre. Our study examines the relationship of the western hemisphere ( Europe and the United States ) as the society and the genre of Science Fiction Film over the time period 1927 - 2007. We start our study with Laing's **__Metropolis__** (1927) and end with the films of Andrew Niccol - __[|**The Truman Show**]**,**__ **__[|Gattaca]__** and __**[|S1m0ne].**__ The standard expects you to have some familiarity, outside of the final three films, with the developments, themes and debates raised in science fiction films over the time period. We will consider the following films: [| Lang]: **__[|Metropolis]__** (1927) [| Chaplin]: [|Modern Times]. (1936) [| Cooper]: **__[|King Kong]__** (1933) [| Corman:] [|The Day the World Ended] (1956 ) [| Guest]: [|The Day the Earth Caught Fire] (1961 ) [| Haskin]: **__[|War of the Worlds]__** ( 1952) [| Kubrick]: **__[|Dr. Strangelove]__** ( 1963) (review task sheet ) [| Truffaut]: **__[|Fahrenheit 451]__** ( 1966 ) Kubrick: **__[|A Clockwork Orange]__** (1971) [| Fleischer]: **__[|Soylent Green]__** (1973) [| Borman]: **__[|Zardoz]__** (1974) [| Radford]: **__[|1984]__** (1984) [| Gilliam]:[|Brazil] (1985) [| Verhoeven]: **__[|Total Recall]__** (1990) [| McTeigue]: **__[|V for Vendetta]__** (2006) [|District 9] (2009) These films show sub-genres within the Science Fiction genre.
 * Credit value: 4**
 * Externally examined**
 * [[image:sf_found.jpg align="left" link="http://www.sf-foundation.org"]]