sci fi genre 


Allegory - underlying hidden meaning (metaphor) e.g. sex work, allegoral notions through the story (constructed narrative)

-a metaphor that makes a broad comment on society


Zeitgeist - feeling at the moment, reflect what's happening in the world 

-the 'spirit of the time'


producers can encode ideological perspectives that may not appear to all audiences 

e.g. -Godzilla could be a reference to nuclear way on japan 

-invasion of the saucer-men, reference to communism, alien ideology stealing their way of life

-independence day, 1996, golf war in middle east 


allegorical aspects in humans 

-sexualisation- Anita immediately sexualised 

-unpaid labour- synths unpaid 

-the negotiation of exoticism- Anita is out east Asian reinforces exoticism only person of that ethnicity in the text. 

-sexual exploitation

-modern slavery

-commodity fetishism- Anita is a computer but is fetishized 

-commodification

-full automation

-the rights of workers

-late period capitalism vs marxism

postcolonialism- heirarcy in class usyem

-transgression

-capitalism and nuclear family

postmodernism

-hyperreality

-prostitution and reights iof sex workers

-polysemy

-racism

-the singularity

-diegesis 

nuclear family

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