Filming location for many scenes in the 2016 TV show Westworld, including scenes from within the park control center and visitor arrival train station.
English 3720 - Literature, Science, and Technology: Frankenstein’s Future: Robotics and Cloning in Science Fiction and Film Dashboard
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English 3720, Vanderbilt University (Spring 2017). “Literature, Science, and Technology: Frankenstein’s Future: Robotics and Cloning in Science Fiction and Film.” TR 9:35-10:50 (ESB 320). Professor Jay Clayton.
How do the futures literature and film imagine shape public attitudes toward science and technology? What is the human in an age of artificial intelligence, autonomous weapons, and synthetic biology? How do science fiction and films influence public policy concerning scientific research? This course focuses on fictions and films about artificial life from Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and James Whale’s iconic 1931 film of that novel, through Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), to classic robot stories by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and others, to twenty-first century dystopias such as Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003) and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (2004). Films will include adaptations of many of these novels, as well as Blade Runner (1982), A.I. (2001), Her (2013), and Ex Machina (2015).
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Filming location for the San Francisco and London stories in "Cloud Atlas," 2012.
Filming location for the Big Isle and Pacific Islands stories in "Cloud Atlas," 2012. Most of the filming took place in the World Heritage site of the Serra de Tramuntana mountains.
Primary filming location for "Cloud Atlas," 2012.
Nick Bostrom started most of his work in Artificial Intelligence at Oxford University in 2002.
Approximate location of the capital of the Tropic Region in Asimov's "The Evitable Conflict".
Capital of the Eastern Region in Asimov's "The Evitable Conflict"