課程資訊
課程名稱
科幻小說與電影專題
Seminar on Science Fiction and Film 
開課學期
108-1 
授課對象
文學院  外國語文學系  
授課教師
廖勇超 
課號
FL2182 
課程識別碼
102 24830 
班次
 
學分
3.0 
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
必修 
上課時間
星期一6,7,8(13:20~16:20) 
上課地點
綜302 
備註
本課程中文授課,使用英文教科書。小說群組(F群組)擇一必修。
限本系所學生(含輔系、雙修生)
總人數上限:30人 
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http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1081FL2182_liao 
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課程概述

The genre of science fiction and film (SF) has acquired cultural momentum in the past few decades, rising at it is from being a kind of pastime popular cultural form to one of the most influential literary/cultural genre in the current literary/cultural scene. SF often features far-fetched imagination combined with practical concerns that address contemporary critical issues, such as the influence of modern technology on human society (posthumanism, A. I., Big Data, etc.), the continuing exploitation of late capitalism and its complicity with the state apparatus (technocratic nationalism, bio-genetic capitalism, etc.), the threatening of nuclear weapons, the invasion of Others (alien invasion), and the termination of the world and its aftermath (Anthropocene, post/apocalypse, post-anthropocentrism etc.). This course offers to look into how these SF works have shed light on the critical issues in our contemporary globalized society with trenchant critiques: these imaginings and comments not only chart the roads that we have travelled, but may also lead us to an elsewhere that is full of potentialities, transversalties, and becomings. 

課程目標
1. To provide students with the ability to think critically about issues related
to science fiction and film.
2. To broaden students' knowledge of science fiction and film in history.
3. To help students engage with the academic research on science fiction and film. 
課程要求
1. Punctual attendance
2. Active participation
3. Term paper and journals
* All the students MUST attend the first meeting of the class (9/9). Those who do not show up on the first day of the class will be DROPPED.
[第一週缺席者視為自動退選] 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
另約時間 
指定閱讀
Novels:
Clarke, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey. 1968. Penguin Books Australia, 2005
Lovecraft, H. P. At the Mountains of Madness. 1936. Penguin Books, 2018.
---. “Herber West-Reanimator.” 1922. Ed. S.T. Joshi. The Call of Cthulhu and
Other Weird Stories. Penguin Books, 2016
Lem, Stanislaw. Solaris. 1961. Trans. Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Mariner,
2002.
Machen, Arthur. The Great God Pan. Late Victorian Gothic Tales. Ed. Roger
Luckhurst. Oxford Up, 2009.

Films:
2001: A Space Odyssey. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. 1968. Burbank, CA : Warner Home
Video, 2001. DVD.
Alien: Covenant. Dir. Ridley Scott. 2017. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment,
2017. DVD.
Godzilla. Dir. Ishiro Honda. 1954. Criterion Collection, 2012. DVD.
Solaris. Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky. 1972. Criterion Collection, 2002. DVD.
The Whisperer in Darkness. Dir. Sean Branney. 2011. Microcinema, 2012. DVD.
The Thing. Dir. John Carpenter. 1982. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 1999.
DVD  
參考書目
Booker, M. Keith and Anne Marie Thomas. The Science Fiction Handbook.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Braidotti, Rosi, and Maria Hlavajova. Eds. Posthuman Glossary. Bloomsbury
Academic, 2018.
Lovelock, James. The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning. Basic Books, 2010. 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
 
No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
Term paper 
30% 
 
2. 
Film responses 
30% 
3 film responses 
3. 
Journal 
30% 
2 journals are required 
4. 
Attendance 
10% 
three absences without official leave taking will result in the failure of this course 
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
9/09  Orientation 
第2週
9/16  Booker, M. Keith and Anne Marie Thomas. "Science Fiction in Western Culture."

Cyborg/A.I./Posthumanism:
Novel: Clarke, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey (I&II).
"The Space Opera." In Booker and Thomas.

Posthuman Glossary:
Artificial intelligence 21-23.
Transhumanism/Posthumanism 438-439. 
第3週
9/23  2001: A Space Odyssey (III).

Posthuman Glossary:
Critical posthumanism 94-96.
Posthuman critical theory 339-342.
Posthuman ethics 345-346.
Posthumanism 356-359. 
第4週
09/30  Typhoon Day 
第5週
10/07  2001: A Space Odyssey (IV&V&VI). 
第6週
10/14  Film: 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968).

*Film response due : 10/20 24:00 
第7週
10/21  Gaia:
Novel: Lam, Stanislaw. Solaris 1-105.
The History of Gaia Theory 159-185. 
第8週
10/28  Solaris 106-204.

Posthuman Glossary:
Capitalocene and Chthulucene 79-83.
Planetary 318-320. 
第9週
11/04  Mid-term exam (no class) 
第10週
11/11  Film: Solaris (1972).

*1st Journal Due
*Film response due : 11/17 24:00 
第11週
11/18  Technology and Human Body:
Novel: Machen, Arthur. The Great God Pan.

Posthuman Glossary:
Neuronal Aesthetics 285-287 
第12週
11/25  Post-anthropocentrism :
Novel: Lovecraft, H.P. At the Mountains of Madness (1).

Posthuman Glossary:
Anthropos 53-55.
Monster/The unhuman 261-264. 
第13週
12/02  At the Mountains of Madness (2).
 
第14週
12/09  At the Mountains of Madness (3). 
第15週
12/16  Film: The Thing (1982).

*Film response due : 12/22 24:00 
第16週
12/23  Film: Alien:Covenant (2017).

Posthuman Glossary:
Symbiogenesis 416-419.

*Film response due : 12/29 24:00
*2nd Journal Due 
第17週
12/30  (Post-)nuclear disaster:

Film: Godzilla (1954).

Tentative Readings:
1.“The Imagination of Disaster” 209-225
2.“Panic Sites: The Japanese Imagination of Disaster from Godzilla to Akira”327-351
3.“When Godzilla Speaks” 9-20
4.“Mobilizing Gojira: Mourning Modernity as Monstrosity” 21-40
5.“Naming the Unnamable” 104-130
6.“Godzilla and the Japanese Nightmare: When Them! is U.S.” 63-77

*Film response due: 1/5 24:00 
第18週
2020/01/06  Final Exam (term paper due)