Asocial :Not sociable or gregarious; withdrawn from society.
Indifferent to or averse to conforming to conventional standards of behavior.
inconsiderate of others; selfish; egocentric.
Aesthetics:
The study of the mind and emotions in relation to the sense of beauty.
Assuage:
To soothe, calm, or mollify: to assuage his fears; to assuage her anger.
Q1. By saying 'Aesthetics of Destruction' Susan Sontag is saying that some of the characters in the films have minds of destruction. They are empowered by evil and they have no space in their lives for loving or passion.
Q2. The term is relevant to Sci-Fi because the usual themes during Sci-Fi films are about someone being infected or taken over by some sort of disease.
Q3. An example of 'Aesthetics of Destruction' in Invasion of the body snatchers is where Teddy is convinced that her Uncle isnt really who he is, and she is having doubts about his reality. Another is a similar style of scene where Dr.Bennell is also convinced that everyone has become infected in his local settlement. Again, Invasion deals with the similar style of 'Aesthetics of Destruction' as the characters who already have been infected, are refusing to stop anyone escaping the area without becoming 'one of them'.
Q4. In my opinion, film lovers love Sci-Fi films involving end of the world scenarios because its a very debatable idea. This scenario could be covered by many genres of films, but with Sci-Fi, it has a more believable and complex way of occurring. Sci-Fi films offer a usual occurrence of a worldwide pandemic to cover the 'end of the world' scenario. This has a more realistic chance of ending the world whereas some ideas in other genres. Also disease pandemics is a very real scenario in this day and age with people being able to travel the globe in 24hours who could carry the disease from one side of the world to the other just like that. As this scenario is a possibility in the future, it gives the audience a chance to see how its expected that authorities would handle it.
Q5. This theme would be monstrous for 1950s film goers because it wasn't even considered in that era. In that specific era, the world as we know it was being manufactured. Motor Vehicles were beginning to become more modernised and more widely produced at a reasonable price. New organisations and freedom was being made at a high level around the world with minimal amounts of danger at all as climate change and terrorism was an almost unknown act. With the globe rapidly becoming a more social and mechanised area, the threat of the end of the world was not a welcomed theme. With all things looking to be going in the right direction, all the work that was being put into development and mechanisation would all be in jeopardy if the threat of the end of the world would be widely scrutinised. In 2007, the threat of the end of the world is a more potent theme as we are living in a much more diverse community with many more corrupt people living in it that the 1950s. This threat is a more believable situation nowadays with the many threats our world is exposed to. Acts of terrorism like 9/11 and nuclear power which is dominant mostly in the Far East are the most dominant human threat along with the natural occurrence of global warming. With these situations looming over the 7bn people on the planet, the subject of the end of the world is again a subject which is enjoyed viewing or being talked about.
Q3. An example of 'Aesthetics of Destruction' in Invasion of the body snatchers is where Teddy is convinced that her Uncle isnt really who he is, and she is having doubts about his reality. Another is a similar style of scene where Dr.Bennell is also convinced that everyone has become infected in his local settlement. Again, Invasion deals with the similar style of 'Aesthetics of Destruction' as the characters who already have been infected, are refusing to stop anyone escaping the area without becoming 'one of them'.
Q4. In my opinion, film lovers love Sci-Fi films involving end of the world scenarios because its a very debatable idea. This scenario could be covered by many genres of films, but with Sci-Fi, it has a more believable and complex way of occurring. Sci-Fi films offer a usual occurrence of a worldwide pandemic to cover the 'end of the world' scenario. This has a more realistic chance of ending the world whereas some ideas in other genres. Also disease pandemics is a very real scenario in this day and age with people being able to travel the globe in 24hours who could carry the disease from one side of the world to the other just like that. As this scenario is a possibility in the future, it gives the audience a chance to see how its expected that authorities would handle it.
Q5. This theme would be monstrous for 1950s film goers because it wasn't even considered in that era. In that specific era, the world as we know it was being manufactured. Motor Vehicles were beginning to become more modernised and more widely produced at a reasonable price. New organisations and freedom was being made at a high level around the world with minimal amounts of danger at all as climate change and terrorism was an almost unknown act. With the globe rapidly becoming a more social and mechanised area, the threat of the end of the world was not a welcomed theme. With all things looking to be going in the right direction, all the work that was being put into development and mechanisation would all be in jeopardy if the threat of the end of the world would be widely scrutinised. In 2007, the threat of the end of the world is a more potent theme as we are living in a much more diverse community with many more corrupt people living in it that the 1950s. This threat is a more believable situation nowadays with the many threats our world is exposed to. Acts of terrorism like 9/11 and nuclear power which is dominant mostly in the Far East are the most dominant human threat along with the natural occurrence of global warming. With these situations looming over the 7bn people on the planet, the subject of the end of the world is again a subject which is enjoyed viewing or being talked about.
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