Audience and Genre Relationships
When we look at any piece of art, one of the biggest factors that go into viewing it is how we classify that work. We do this through Genres, when we classify these pieces of work by characterizing the similarities between the subject matter, the style, its form and its general composition. These similarities begin to form until these characteristic become the standard to the work if you want to have be placed in these genres. Genres are generally used so that one may find works similar to the works you enjoy, which applies from music, film to literature. Though something people tend to not think about is the origins of these genres. Without an audience to observe and examine the piece of art, the formula which
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Only beginning to appear during the industrial revolution, Science Fiction revolves around fictional scenarios based around scientific fact and/or major scientific, social, and/or technological change. At the time of its creation science fiction was pretty straight forward, rarely straying from its original parameter of the genre. Though as the audience for science fiction began to branch into sub genres, such as space operas, cyberpunk, dystopia, and space western. Each of these subgenres were formed when the audience wished to see other elements of other genres within these works. Here was see that these genres are being influenced by the interests of the audience. Though in a genre devoted so much to change, it is no surprise that it would evolve so quickly. In a time where each month would bring a new innovation that would change the way we would understand life in the early 20th century, new works would be released based on said innovations. One notable example was space travel, when the United States and Russia were engaged in a battle to prove scientific superiority, we took to the stars and strove to go to space. This caused the both writers and audiences to read and write stories about the potential adventures we might have in the sky, which would lead stories of space travel and life in space that would become immensely popular with audiences. Likewise when the threat of nuclear annihilation came to the public consciousness, we would flock to stories discussing the apocalypse and the various scenarios that could be possible with this situation. Science fiction gave audiences to imagine scenarios that were fantastical while being grounded in some sense of reality due to the mostly scientific nature surrounding the
Some works of science fiction are better than others. “A Sound of Thunder,” a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury, is about people going into a time machine to kill a dinosaur. When they go back, one of the men goes off of the path, and he learns that doing very insignificant little things in the past could change the future a little bit. “Nethergrave,” a science fiction short story by Gloria Skurzynski, is about a boy that has many troubles in his life. For example, he kicks a ball in the net in a soccer game, but he kicked the ball in the wrong net, scoring for the other team.
Gloria Skurzynski’s background to writing “Nethergrave” was because of science fiction. Gloria says, “In fantasy, the cause is magic. In science fiction, the role of magic is replaced by advanced technology.” Ray Bradbury’s background to writing “A Sound of Thunder” was time travel. When H.G Wells published “The Time Machine” it had imagination.
Chapter twenty begins by talking about how there almost wasn’t much else to write or even talking about. All people wanted to hear or read was “bomb, bomb, bomb,” nothing else truly appealed to them. Chapter twenty one was the true turn of our media towards talking about the future. We began seeing stories of worldwide fallouts and surviving. Chapter twenty two is the impact on the scientific world and how people started to almost believe science as much as their own religion.
Science Fiction Comparison When people’s lives are stripped away, and communication is lost, is the time when people prize companionship and affection the most. They crave to go back to the way their lives were before and something that was small before the destruction of their livelihood, is now what they depend on for their happiness. Both Rye and Dr. Jenkins experience longing for their pasts and they do anything to satisfy their nostalgia. In “Speech Sounds” and “The Portable Phonograph”, Octavia Butler and Walter Van Tilburg Clark describes the greed that the characters face, that causes destruction with both symbolism and the similarities of the characters.
Paragraph 1: Each story can be placed in the science fiction genre on account of the plot revolving around advanced scientific possibilities. Usually with these scientific achievements come new environments, and societies. A Sound of Thunder occurred in the year 2055, where big game hunters could use a time machine to travel to the age of dinosaurs and put their skill to the test. Nethergrave started off like an average
The science fiction genre is very often associated with space, the future, or extra-terrestrial beings. Many classic depictions of sci-fi stories involve cliché alien encounters where the alien species invades Earth and take control over humanity. The alien species introduce themselves to human kind as foreign and unknown by using deadly viruses or weapons of massive destruction to destroy all human life on Earth. The foreign alien species are often shown to have no understanding of human kind or human nature, and pursue a takeover of the planet purely for sustenance or power. However, there are stories of the science fiction genre that create interesting contrasts to the common depiction of alien life forms throughout media.
To further her explanation of common themes in science fiction stories, Rebecca Gibson tells how these stories are created and by whom. She says that most science fiction is based on a dystopian or
Showing concern for the fellow being is the need of the hour which will give comfort and solace to the inhabitants of the world. Humanity thrives well if the people of its society live with the concern. Everybody expects care and warmth from the society forgetting the fact the little drops from every individual will make a mighty ocean. It is the apt time to think about what is wrong with the attitude of mankind to check what will harm the present as well as future generations. The writers who write science fiction try to create awareness and at the same time give an alarm to the society.
“Science fiction encourages us to explore... all futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.” - Marion Zimmer Bradley. This quote really describes what science fiction is. While realistic fiction focuses on real life, science fiction is a lot more imaginative and creative. Science fiction is something that lets the writer explore different worlds and really ask “what if?”
Science fiction is fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets. One article stated, “Harrison Bergeron effectively renders Vonnegut’s vision of the unethical, misguided use of scientific and technological developments in the future” (Reed and Grigsby). The authors are explaining the fact that Vonnegut is using scientific and technological developments in the future. They are showing that they are using it for the bad, not for the good of life.
The word genre comes from the French word for 'class ', (Chandler, 1997). Film genre refers to a specific style or subject matter. A movie may have several different components that may make up a specific genre. Genres makes it easier for the audience, as the categorization of genres lets the audience pick what sort of movie they would like to watch. Film genres give the audience information into the type movie it may be, this in turn helps them to decide whether the movie is suitable for them or not.
The aforementioned differences in values that each genre shows how there are themes that a viewer might not even realize is present. The values presented in individual genres are not something as visible on screen as costumes and settings. A viewer has to pay more attention to films and study them to an extent to come across these generalizations about each genre. This is why these themes are easy to interchange within the film. The values presented in both westerns and science fiction are able to coexist because they are an element that are not as visually jarring and do not stand out as much as one not belonging with the other.
Over time, science fiction has changed significantly following the trends of a certain era. When you read a literary piece made in the 19th century, don’t expect it to be quite similar to the ones made a few months ago. Even though there are many differences, there are also some similar concepts and ideas, which shows how time differences influences a writer’s style. The two texts that will be used in this essay are ‘The Machine Stops’ by E.M. Foster, and ‘Transcendence’, a 2014 movie. This essay will explain the theme, plot, and purpose of these two stories.
Whilst the knower’s perspective is always essential in the pursuit of knowledge, it’s essence is greater in some areas of knowledge than others. Perspective shapes both what we pursue in knowledge and it affects how we interpret pursued knowledge. Whilst the latter has greater influence over subjective areas such as the arts and history, the former affects even the pursuit of knowledge in more objective areas such as the natural sciences and maths. What’s more, for knowledge to be knowledge, there must be a knower. Each individual knower gains knowledge through the ways of knowing reason and emotion (amongst others); these ways of knowing shape and are shaped by our perspective.
Science fiction is one of the genres of fiction which deals with futuristic settings, science, technology, space travel, time travel, etc. The hallmark of this type of fiction is that it is “a literature of ideas”. It also discusses the question of identity, existence, morality, social structure, desire, etc. If we see carefully and closely, science fiction is always established on the pattern of suspension of disbelief but still it differs from fantasy as its imaginary elements are largely possible within scientifically postulated physical laws. Characters in a science fiction include robots, clients, androids and futuristic technology such as teleportation machines, ray guns, humanoid computers are integral part of such type of fiction.