Have You Gotten The Look?
We've all gotten "the look" -- the subtle, knowing, condescending gaze from others once they discover you are... a science-fiction fan. "The Look" is the subject of a new video that was featured at a recent education conference in Arizona.
Craig Jacobson's low-fi video works as a personal essay, but it also explores some big questions that fans have to face: Where do we draw the line between what is and isn't science-fiction? Is something automatically considered sci-fi just because it has an alien? Or a mad scientist? Or a time-machine? Rocky IV had a talking robot -- does that count?
The "Sci-Fi or Horror?" question is something we talked about in our interview with George Romero. People will keep debating this stuff, so long as there are genre films.
I really like the video presentation of the timeline of science fiction in its historical context from pre-WWII to today. It's interesting that, for its time, Frankenstein was science fiction, but now, as our grasp of biological science has gotten better, it's thought of as horror.