On the Design of Cyberpunk Female Image in Cyberpunk Films

Journal: Arts Studies and Criticism DOI: 10.32629/asc.v3i3.940

Jiayang Li

Chinese National Academy of Arts, Beijing 100020, China

Abstract

Born in the 1980s, cyberpunk predicts a high-tech and low-life future in the form of science fiction. In 40 years of development, some of the predictions have come true, and people have never stopped exploring and imagining the cyber world. The emergence of cyberpunk films has enriched and activated the vitality of philosophy and aesthetics, in which the female characters are from nothing and from simplicity to complexity. Even their assumption of major roles in the cyber world is an inevitable trend of social progress.

Keywords

cyberpunk, image design, feminism, science fiction film

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