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Does a Film Genre Change Over Time? "Science fiction is that branch of literature that deals with human responses to changes in the level of science and technology" - Isaac Asimov When looking at Science Fiction I believe as a genre, it most certainly has changed over time. The genre, like most others, is heavily influenced by contemporary affairs. The film makers tend to base their films upon the issues that concern people at the time. For example, in the 1950s films like ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ and ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ focused on the alien invasion. This was probably due to the Cold War which created a general paranoia of anything not American, as well as the infamous Roswell spacecraft crash in 1947, which heightened an already large fascination with UFOs. As technology in society progressed so did the topic of Science Fiction films, which began to focus on cyborgs, clones and post-modern implosions in films such as ‘Blade Runner’, ‘Planet of the Apes’ and ‘The Term