Editing Science fiction film (section)

===Future noir===
[[Lancaster University]] professor Jamaluddin Bin Aziz argues that as science fiction has evolved and expanded, it has fused with other film genres such as [[Gothic fiction|gothic]] [[Thriller film|thrillers]] and [[film noir]]. When science fiction integrates film noir elements, Bin Aziz calls the resulting hybrid form "future noir", a form which "... encapsulates a [[postmodern]] encounter with generic persistence, creating a mixture of irony, pessimism, prediction, extrapolation, bleakness and nostalgia." Future noir films such as ''[[Brazil (1985 film)|Brazil]]'', ''[[Blade Runner]]'', ''[[12 Monkeys (film)|12 Monkeys]]'', ''[[Dark City (1998 film)|Dark City]]'', and ''[[Children of Men]]'' use a [[protagonist]] who is "...increasingly dubious, alienated and fragmented", at once "dark and playful like the characters in Gibson's ''[[Neuromancer]]'', yet still with the "... shadow of [[Philip Marlowe]]..."

Future noir films that are set in a [[post-apocalyptic]] world "...restructure and re-represent society in a parody of the atmospheric world usually found in noir's construction of a city—dark, bleak and beguiled." Future noir films often intermingle elements of the gothic thriller genre, such as ''[[Minority Report (film)|Minority Report]]'', which makes references to [[occult]] practices, and ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'', with its tagline "In space, no one can hear you scream", and a space vessel, Nostromo, "that hark[s] back to images of the haunted house in the gothic horror tradition". Bin Aziz states that films such as [[James Cameron]]’s ''[[The Terminator]]'' are a subgenre of "techno noir" that create "...an atmospheric feast of noir darkness and a double-edged world that is not what it seems."<ref>{{cite web | last = Bin Aziz | first = Jamaluddin | title = Future Noir | work = Summer Special: Postmodern and Future Noir | publisher = Crimeculture.com | date = Summer 2005 | url = http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/Articles-Summer05/JemAziz1.html | access-date = 17 November 2008 |url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081202113605/http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/Articles-Summer05/JemAziz1.html | archive-date = 2 December 2008 }}</ref>