2001: A Space Odyssey
What does Peter Kramer argue the film's success was due to?
It's sense of hope
What is Simone Natale's argument about artificial intelligence in "The Turning Test: The Cultural Life of an Idea?"
AI is as much a measure of human perception as anything
What does Scott Bukatman liken Blade Runner's set design and probing cameras to?
Kaleidoscope
In "From Wooden Cyborgs to Celluloid Souls," Christopher Bolton argues against earlier interpretations of Ghost in the Shell (for example, the one put forward by Carl Silvio) by claiming that:
Anime is a performed medium
To provoke and to be subversive
The film's title implies that a return home is necessarily preceded by what?
A Long Detour
What does the interrogator attempt to determine in Alan Turing's Imitation game?
The participant's gender
What term was adopted by various Blade Runner contributors as a kind of shorthand for the film's aesthetic and conceptual approach that highlights how its vision of the future differed from the earlier science fiction stories?
Retrofitting
What does Bolton suggest be examined to provide a way of reassessing the split between body and language in Ghost in the Shell?
Japan's history of puppetry
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
What novel does the prehistoric sequence take the most direct inspiration from?
Expedition to Earth
Simone Natale argues that Alan Turing's Imitation Game is deeply intertwined with questions about what?
Communication
Which three 1982 films are credited as anticipating cyberpunk as a science fiction sub-genre?
Videodrome, Tron, Blade Runner
Which famous Japanese Playwright provided insight on the history of puppetry in Japan, such as by the early eighteenth century three operators were used to manipulate puppets?
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Who was named MVP of Super Bowl LVll?
Patrick Mahomes II
Before HAL got his name, what was he originally called in an earlier script?
Athena
In "The Turing Test: The Cultural Life of an Idea," there is a reference to Alexander Kronrod who describes chess as "the drosophila of artificial intelligence." This term is borrowed from geneticists who use this "model organism" in much of their research.
Fruit Fly
What term does Bukatman use to simultaneously suggest an endpoint and a new position mediated by computer screens?
Terminal Identity
Why was French critic Roland Barthes was interested in Bunraku?
Because of the way they undermine Western notions of a unified, whole subject
How does HAL test Bowman's intelligence in 2001?
According to Peter Kramer, two of the film's long-distance conversations hint at the alienation implicit in modern life by referencing what?
What does Simone Natale suggest that many human-machine interactions require in order to function effectively?
Banal Deception
Scott Bukatman draws attention to Rutger Hauer's performance characterizing his idiosyncrasies as a form of __________.
Camp
In The Ghost in the Shell, what type of doll does Bantou refer to cyborgs as?
Celluliod
Is Deckard a replicant?
Aren't we all replicants in a way ;P