The Real, the Virtual and the Cinematic
Welcome to the website for Film 140: Special Topics in Film, a course offered through the Department of Rhetoric and Film at UC Berkeley, Fall 2000.
In this class we will examine how digital technologies are represented in contemporary film, focusing on films from the 1970s to the present. In this period, we see an excitement about the ability of film to represent new spaces and types of existence. Both the human body and the world are seen as malleable and transformable entities, and technology appears as a threat, as an adventure, or as an enabler of fantasy.
Our emphasis in this course will be on tracing the development of filmic metaphors about digital media, and examining how cultural and visual attitudes towards digital technologies have changed in this period.
For more information about this course, please contact the instructor.
Assembling a new person, from the film Ghost in the Shell.
Course Resources
Contact the Instructor:
Name:
Despina Kakoudaki
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