PHIL1667 (Science Fiction and Film: Moral Dilemmas and Ethical Analysis) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Average rating 2.6/5. Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.
Explores how science fiction films function as mythical cautionary tales about moral dilemmas of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and as projections about how these dilemmas may be resolved or continue in the future. Provides a framework for an ethical analysis and examines how themes such as manifest destiny, nationalism, utopia, good vs. evil, war, and concepts of “the Other” are presented in classic and contemporary film. Also shows how science fiction film sometimes reinterprets pre-existing stories from world cultures and world religious traditions, updating earlier moral dilemmas to the contemporary situation.
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