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A 5 page paper which examines how these films represent hybrids of the generic traditions of science fiction and film noir. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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of past, present and future. It remains one of the most popular of cinematic genres because of its reflection of timeless human fears that have become magnified and accelerated
by technology running amok. While science fiction has enough content and conflict to stand alone, in recent years, it has also merged well with other popular genres. When
the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 brought the world on the brink of a man-made technological apocalypse, postwar society entered a period of somber reflection.
Film noir evolved as a "cinema of shadows, projecting stark and moody tableaux of guns and neon" (Okon 190). Film historian Christine M. Okon observed, "Noir images seem to
exist between waking and dreaming, like the flickering impressions of an insomniacs late-late-show recollections" (190). During the 1980s and 90s, the crime dramas and detective fare which had once
typified the film noir genre began merging with science fiction to create the hybrid known as dark city tech noir, which has been a match made in cinematic heaven.
Ridley Scotts Blade Runner (1982) and Alex Proyas Dark City defined the genre by representing the classic conflict between good (the city) and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city
of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, militarized and markedly divided on class and racial lines, retrofitted with chic post-modern architecture over a decaying
infrastructure" (Sharrett 671). It is futuristic, to be sure, but is deeply rooted in the earliest of science fiction traditions as a "retelling of the Frankenstein story" (Sharrett 671).
Replicants, or human-like robots constructed by the Tyrrell Corporation, illegally invade the earth, and blade runners like Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) are expected to retire or exterminate them (Broeske
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