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Stephen Benedict Dyson

“The Radiance of a Thousand Suns” - An Introduction to “Sunshine.”

In the final years of the Second World War, humanity’s best-and-brightest scientists gathered in the United States to race toward…

Nov 5, 2018

“The Radiance of a Thousand Suns” - An Introduction to “Sunshine.”

Nov 5, 2018

Stephen Benedict Dyson

Humanities House Fall 2018 Film Series # 1: Children of Men

Alfonso Cuaron’s “Children of Men” is the first selection for the Fall 2018 Humanities House film series.

Sep 3, 2018

Humanities House Fall 2018 Film Series # 1: Children of Men

Sep 3, 2018

Stephen Benedict Dyson

Blade Runner — Artificial Intelligence Film Series # 3

Blade Runner, a 1982 film directed by Ridley Scott, imagines a grimy, polluted Los Angeles of the future.

Mar 18, 2018

Blade Runner — Artificial Intelligence Film Series # 3

Mar 18, 2018

Stephen Benedict Dyson

2001: A Space Odyssey — Artificial Intelligence Film Series # 1.

Offering a reading of 2001: A Space Odyssey is an act of such hubris that I think it better to say very little, other than to briefly set…

Feb 8, 2018

2001: A Space Odyssey — Artificial Intelligence Film Series # 1.

Feb 8, 2018

Stephen Benedict Dyson

Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan Film Season # 3

In May 1940, trapped with their backs to the sea at the French port of Dunkirk, 400,000 British soldiers face a choice between surrender…

Jan 19, 2018

Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan Film Season # 3

Jan 19, 2018

Stephen Benedict Dyson

Ways of Seeing.

What does it mean to develop “Ways of Seeing”?

Jan 10, 2018

Ways of Seeing.

Jan 10, 2018

Stephen Benedict Dyson

Interstellar — Christopher Nolan Film Season # 2

“We used to look up and wonder at our place in the stars,” says Matthew McConaughey’s space pilot Cooper, the protagonist of Interstellar…

Oct 3, 2017

Interstellar — Christopher Nolan Film Season # 2

Oct 3, 2017

Stephen Benedict Dyson

Inception — Christopher Nolan Film Season # 1

“All of my films are connected,” says Christopher Nolan, the director and screenwriter of Inception, Interstellar, and Dunkirk, our…

Sep 5, 2017

Inception — Christopher Nolan Film Season # 1

Sep 5, 2017

Stephen Benedict Dyson

Star Trek Beyond Okay

Star Trek Beyond starts brilliantly and ends well. It reconnects the new movies to the themes of the old series. It looks beautiful. But…

Jul 22, 2016

Star Trek Beyond Okay

Jul 22, 2016

Stephen Benedict Dyson

This one scene explains the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek.

Stealing the Enterprise vs. Stealing a TIE fighter.

Jan 8, 2016

This one scene explains the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek.

Jan 8, 2016

Stephen Benedict Dyson

Stephen Benedict Dyson

UConn Professor. Author of Otherworldly Politics: The International Relations of Star Trek, Game of Thrones, and Battlestar Galactica. @sbdyson

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