I've gotten a couple of requests for this, so here to the list is a sketch of my Cyberpunk Film syllabus: Films: Alphaville A Clockwork Orange The Terminal Man (or Westworld) The Road Warrior Blade Runner (1992 director's cut) Tron The Terminator Videodrome The Lawnmower Man Tetsuo: The Iron Man We do all of our reading from "Storming The Reality Studio" (ed. Larry McCaffrey, Duke U. Press), an anthology of fiction, philosophy (many post-structuralist superstars in smidgen-sized samples), criticism and even poetry. I supplement that text with some materials more relevant to one of my topics in the course, namely the Hollywood-ization of subversive ideas (e.g., "The terminal Man" as a easy-to-swallow "Clockwork Orange," the marketing of "Tron," the launching of the Schwarzeneggerian nightmare (:-)) with "The Terminator"). This is the second time I've taught the course, and we're liking it just as well this go-round as we did the first. |"I'm a multi-faceted, talented, wealthy, Shawn Levy | internationally famous genius. I have an [log in to unmask] | IQ of over 190. People don't like that." | -- Jerry Lewis