Counter Cinema – What are visual motifs consistently found in dystopian Sci-Fi’s?

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What are visual motifs consistently found in dystopian Sci-Fi’s? (referencing the films we watched)

Eg. Lighting, camera techniques, editing choices, costumes, city scape, weather, etc.

FILMS :

Terminator 2 (1991, Cameron)

Robocop (1987)

Blade Runner (1982, Scott)

Strange Days (1995, Bigelow)

Hackers (1995, Softly)

Star Trek (not dystopian, but worth mentioning lighting, such as lens flares)

READINGS:

Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of
Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991), pp.149-181

Leo Marx, “Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept,” Technology and Culture, Vol 51, No 3, July 2010, pp. 561-577.

Catherine Zimmer, “Surveillance, Remediation, and Social Memory in Strange Days,” in Surveillance Cinema (New York: NYU Press, 2015) pp. 181-208.

Catherine Zimmer, “Surveillance, Remediation, and Social Memory in Strange Days,” in Surveillance Cinema (New York: NYU Press, 2015) pp. 181-208.

Referencing and talking about the MOVIES is the important part. If the readings are referenced, then that is a bonus! But the teacher has told me that crafting this
essay around the films is the important part.