WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IT
GENRE:
ADULT
ANIMATION
SCIENCE
FICTION
COMEDY
WHY THE NEED FOR ADULT
ANIMATION:
RISQUE THEMES
GRAPHIC VIOLENCE
DISPLAYS OF SEXUALITY
WHY THE NEED FOR SCIENCE
FICTION:
OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD
INVENTIONS
TO DEFY A FIXED SETTING
WHY THE NEED FOR
COMEDY:
TO GO OVER THE TOP IN
TERMS OF PLOT
TRANSNATIONALISM
VIA
AMERICAN CULTURAL IMPERIALSIM?
THE GODFELLAS EPISODE
KEY THEME COVERED IN THE
EPISODE:
RELIGION
HOW THE THEME WAS COVERED
MAIN PLOT
BENDER BECOMES A GOD FIGURE
(SERIOUS SIDE OF RELIGION)
SUB PLOT
FRY SEARCHING FOR BENDER
(LIGHTER SIDE OF RELIGION)
THE USE OF INTERTEXTUAL REFERENCES IN TV
“THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SIMULATIONS AND THEIR
ORIGINALS IS NOT SIMPLE OR STRAIGHTFORWARD, AS IT IS
OFTEN INTERTEXTUAL IN NATURE, INVOLVING PLAGIARISM,
QUOTATION, PARODY, AND INTERTEXTUAL HUMOUR.
UMBERTO ECO HAS TERMED THESE PRACTICES „AESTHETICS
OF SERIALITY‟” (NAFICY, 1989)
FURTHER EXAMPLES
„NINE BILLION NAMES OF GOD‟ SHORT SCI-FI STORY BY
ARTHUR C. CLARKE (1953)
„MICROCOSMIC GOD‟ SCI-FI NOVELETTE BY THEODORE
STURGEON (1941)
THE TWILIGHT ZONE, - “THE LITTLE PEOPLE” EPISODE (1962)
THE VOICE OF "GOD" IS BASED ON VIC PERRIN'S "CONTROL
VOICE" FROM THE OUTER LIMITS
„PLAYING GOD‟ IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
NERD THEOLOGY - KEVIN KELLY
“WE HAVE BECOME MINI-GODS. AND THUS WE SEEK GOD BY
CREATING GODS”
CLOSE READING OF EPISODE
REFERENCES
“In Praise of Cultural Imperialism?”, by David
Rothkopf, Foreign Policy no. 107, Summer 1997, pp.
38–53