{"id":128,"date":"2016-11-28T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/11\/28\/watch-some-cyberpunk-movies-for-cyber-monday\/"},"modified":"2016-11-28T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T17:32:00","slug":"watch-some-cyberpunk-movies-for-cyber-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/11\/28\/watch-some-cyberpunk-movies-for-cyber-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch some cyberpunk movies for Cyber Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today is the increasingly dated-sounding Cyber Monday, an online sales day commemorated when people still had to use their workplace computers to get online. For an event with a name as silly as Cyber Monday, the only appropriate film genre to watch today is cyberpunk.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t seen any such movies before, cyberpunk is a loose subgenre of science fiction and crime set in near-future dystopias; films in the genre use overwhelming technology and huge corporations as a sounding board for social issues and exploring the idea of consciousness. That sounds vague \u2013 and elements have seeped into almost all modern blockbusters \u2013 but as consumer electronics exploded in the 80s through the early 2000s, it was a dominant genre.<\/p>\n

We come not to taunt Cyber Monday’s name but to praise it: like cyberpunk, it reflects a time of uncertainty and expectation about the future of technology. And decades later, they both sound pretty ridiculous.<\/p>\n

A few recommendations:<\/p>\n

Akira \u2013 HU DVD 433<\/a>
Blade Runner \u2013 HU DVD 1064<\/a>
Dark City \u2013 HU DVD 1992<\/a>
Ghost in the Shell \u2013 HU DVD 5155<\/a>
The Matrix \u2013 HU DVD 10154<\/a>
RoboCop \u2013 DVD 8164<\/a>
Strange Days \u2013 HU DVD 584<\/a>
Total Recall \u2013 HU DVD 2040<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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