Currently, this blog serves as a site of discussion among members of the Columbia College Chicago course "Techno-Orientalism: Asia and Technology in Sci-Fi Film and Television," which I am teaching this fall semester. In the course, we are screening the following media texts:
(C) = Only clips of these films will be screened.
(E) = Only certain episodes of these series will be screened.
The Mask of Fu Manchu (USA: 1932, dir: Charles Brabin)
Gojira (Godzilla) (Japan: 1954, dir: Ishiro Honda)
Hollywood Harems (USA: 1999, dir: Tania Kamal-Eldin)
Son of Sinbad (USA: 1955, dir: Ted Tetzlaff)
(C) The Hidden Fortress (Japan: 1958, dir: Akira Kurosawa)
(C) Star Wars, Episodes I-VI (USA: 1977-2005, creator: George Lucas)
(E) Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars (USA: 1938, dirs: Ford Beebe and Robert Hill)
(E) Flash Gordon [TV] (USA: 1954, dirs: Gunther von Fritsch and Joseph Zigman)
Flash Gordon (USA: 1980, dir: Mike Hodges)
(C) Metropolis (Germany: 1927, dir: Fritz Lang)
Blade Runner (USA: 1982, dir: Ridley Scott)
(E) Aeon Flux [TV] (USA: 1995, creator: Peter Chung)
Memorizu: Cannon Fodder (Japan, 1995, dirs: Koji Morimoto and Tensai Okamura)
(C) The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions (USA:
1999-2003, dirs: Andy and Larry Wachowski)
The Animatrix: The Second Renaissance, Parts I and II (from The Animatrix)
(USA/Japan: 2003, dir: Mahiro Maeda)
(E) Firefly [TV] (USA: 2002, creator: Joss Whedon)
(C) Serenity (USA: 2005, dir: Joss Whedon)
(E) Gankutsuou (The Count of Monte Cristo) [TV] (Japan: 2004, dir: Mahiro Maeda)
(C) Casshern (Japan: 2004, dir: Kazuaki Kiriya)
Wave Twisters (USA: 2001, dirs: Syd Garon and Eric Henry, creator: DJ Qbert)
Robot Stories: Clay (USA: 2003, dir: Greg Pak)
2046 (China: 2004, dir: Wong Kar Wai)
I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK (South Korea: 2006, dir: Chan-wook Park)
