A-Life and the uncanny in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Article Abstract:

The significance of the film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within lies less in the technological achievement of its computer graphics than in the questions it raises about the conceptualization and representation of life in analog and digital media. It is argued that a contingent, historically specific notion of life as artificial life, or a-life, provides continuity and cross-fertilization between analog and digital moving-image media on the one hand and information based life sciences on the other.

Movie directors, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (Motion picture), Hirobu, Sakaguchi

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Final frontiers: Computer-generated imagery and the science fiction film

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The contributions of science fiction films on the rise of computer-generated imagery (CGI) are explored. The films like Blade (1998) and The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003) are used to show that the use of computer imagery specifically transforms genres such as horror, fantasy and martial arts into a form of hybridized science fiction.

Computer graphics, Special effects (Motion pictures), Special effects (Movies)

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Raumpatrouille: the cold war, the "citizen in uniform," and West German television

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The series Raumpatrouille Orion, all seven episodes of which aired in 1966, that stands as the first science fiction program produced by and for German television is reviewed. The program echoes central features of the brand of neoliberalism common in post-War West Germany.

Movie producers (Persons), Raumpatrouille: Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffs Orion (Motion picture), German postwar literature, Gottschalk, Hans

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