WOME 3310
WOME-3310-FA/FB: Science Fiction, Gender and Social Change
Fall 2022
Topics
- Film and discussion
- Rebecca Weaver-Hightower – “The Postcolonial Hybrid: Neill Blomkamp’s District 9”
- Movie 1: District
- Sparker 1
- Sparker 2
- W4/: Aliens, Alienation, and Afrofuturism Part II
- Adilifu Nama – “Black Space: Structured Absence and Token Presence”
- Sofia Samatar – “Toward an Planetary History of Afrofuturism”
- Video Clips
- Miscellaneous Wangechi Mutu
- Octavia Butler: The Grand Dame of Science Fiction
- Black Panther
- Afrofuturism: From Books to Blockbusters
- W5/: Time-Travellers: Indigenous Science Fiction and Colonialism Exploration
- Sandi Solis – “Culloden and Wounded Knee: Genocide, Identity, and Cultural Survival”
- Chelsea Vowel – excerpts from Buffalo is the New Buffalo
- Video Links
- Lakehead University
- Avatar
- Outlander
- 12 Monkeys
- The Man in the High Castle
- Arrival
- Four Faces of the Moon
- Other
Readings
- Required: Email Note: Ø
- Required: Covid-19 Protocol for WOME 3310:
- Required: From the University:
- Brave New World (2020)
- Movie 1: District 9 (2009)
- Four Faces of the Moon (2017) Other:
- Movie 2: Never Let Me Go (2010)
- Planets of the Apes (1968)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
- Movie 3: Her (2013)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
- Children of Men (2006)
- Star Wars: Rogue One (2016)
- The Handmaid’s Tale (2017)
- Don’t Look Up (2021)
Sources
- syllabus ↗Fall 2022
- Course source ↗
- Additional readings or course materials are supplied through the course site or course pack.