Alphaville
Location
JAAC 1034
Presentation Type
Event
Start Date
13-9-2016 7:00 PM
Description
In the dystopian future of Jean-Luc Godard’s award-winning 1965 film, Alphaville, life is controlled by Alpha 60, a sentient computer designed to establish and maintain a totalitarian society based on logic and science, in which all signs of individualism have been outlawed. As in Orwell’s 1984, even language, and so thought, is tightly controlled and being constantly edited. While the setting for the story is the future, the 50’s film noir style of the film suggests that the conflict between man and machine is well underway, with art itself being humanity’s greatest weapon, and emotion our greatest defense. In French, with English subtitles. Film 3 of the Pre-Symposium International Film Series, “Of (Hu)man and Machine,” co-sponsored by the School of Humanities and the Belmont University Film Society. Discussion to follow.
Recommended Citation
Belmont University, "Alphaville" (2016). Humanities Symposium. 6.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2016/ff2016/6
Alphaville
JAAC 1034
In the dystopian future of Jean-Luc Godard’s award-winning 1965 film, Alphaville, life is controlled by Alpha 60, a sentient computer designed to establish and maintain a totalitarian society based on logic and science, in which all signs of individualism have been outlawed. As in Orwell’s 1984, even language, and so thought, is tightly controlled and being constantly edited. While the setting for the story is the future, the 50’s film noir style of the film suggests that the conflict between man and machine is well underway, with art itself being humanity’s greatest weapon, and emotion our greatest defense. In French, with English subtitles. Film 3 of the Pre-Symposium International Film Series, “Of (Hu)man and Machine,” co-sponsored by the School of Humanities and the Belmont University Film Society. Discussion to follow.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Society and the Arts & Sciences