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How do historical developments within a society reflect in its cultural output?
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ORAN TARJAN HISTORY & THEORY OF THE MEDIA 1. How do historical developments within a society reflect in its cultural output? Illustrate your argument making detailed reference to THREE films/television programmes from EITHER television crime fiction OR Science Fiction. Historical events and developments within a society are usually reflected and represented through its cultural output. This is generally the case according to science fiction. I will therefore examine how the science fiction genre reflects historical developments within a society with reference to three science fiction films. I have chosen to use George Romero's trilogy of 'Dead' films: 'Night of the Living Dead' (1968), 'Dawn of the Dead' (1978) and 'Day of the Dead' (1985). Although these films are usually referred to as horror films they can also be seen as science fiction because they display many of the themes related to the genre. Science fiction has always been a genre...
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