Let’s take a journey back to the 1980’s and beyond, to discover the origins of the Cyberpunk movement, in literature, cinema, television, video games, comics and more! In this documentary miniseries, we will discover the wonders of Cyberpunk, dating back to the 1940’s, all the way through 1989, with each successive episode taking on a new decade.
Co-written by Shalashaskka
https://www.youtube.com/c/Shalashaskka
0:00:00 - Intro
0:02:19 - The Origins of Cyberpunk
0:04:14 - Proto-Punk
0:04:58 - Philip K. Dick
0:05:30 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
0:06:25 - Colossus: The Forbin Project
0:07:03 - Westworld
0:08:53 - The Long Tomorrow, Métal Hurlant
0:09:21 - 2000 AD, Judge Dredd
0:09:51 - Early authors, origin of the term "cyberpunk"
0:11:09 - Future Noir
0:11:25 - Blade Runner
0:18:49 - Syd Mead
0:19:55 - TRON
0:20:55 - Neuromancer
0:24:55 - Going Mainstream
0:25:20 - Cyberpunk tabletop game
0:26:07 - Shadowrun
0:29:08 - WarGames
0:29:28 - Trancers
0:29:56 - The Terminator
0:31:02 - Blade Runner, the game
0:32:04 - Max Headroom
0:33:55 - RoboCop
0:36:22 - RoboCop, the game
0:36:45 - The Running Man
0:37:38 - Bubblegum Crisis
0:38:10 - Akira
0:39:07 - Interactive media
0:39:21 - Snatcher
0:41:50 - Neuromancer, the game
0:43:52 - Cyberpunk literary symposium
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MUSIC CREDITS
Full credits here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wvUtqMCH2mFuK4wi-jnoo7-08rx5t7-xdcQjQpWWKTQ/
Intro: 'Insomniac' by Matt Large
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCRjagL6rhU
Credits & title card music: 'Synthwave' by DjDocent
https://audiojungle.net/item/medical/21117062
Outro: ‘Flight Path’ by Kuedo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrpwMPshWpw
Stock music licensed through www.EpidemicSound.com
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FOOTAGE CREDITS
B.A.T. footage by ankokumen | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAe8z5-MR9A
Neuromancer cyberspace gameplay by Crowley9 |
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCirKbPmlwMDPvIYiJmetRsA
Snatcher footage by GoggleBoxFairy | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrmEaL6i1Jc
RoboCop MAME footage by bubufufu and Si0r:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxjZ0UA21ok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPXH86yh6cI
Blade Runner, Tron art by Syd Mead:
http://sydmead.com/
Neuromancer 3D artwork rendition by Rafael Moco:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ZLR5X
Circuit’s Edge gameplay by MDCore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=titfH1NxjZ4
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SOURCES
Gibson on Shadowrun
https://web.archive.org/web/20070627074200/http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/98-3/issue7/gibson.html
http://williamgibsonblog.blogspot.com/2003_05_01_archive.html
Shadowrun | https://shadowrun.fandom.com/
Blade Runner convention | https://youtu.be/1ZVW8Zn5fSM
Nuyen in Neuromancer | https://books.google.com/books?id=1pyFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=neuromancer+nuyen
“Cyberpunk” term origin | https://books.google.com/books?id=5ER26ZJkc30C&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=cyberpunk+bethke+1983+dozois#v=onepage&q=cyberpunk%20bethke%201983%20dozois&f=false
The Future of Human-Machine Communications: The Turing Test | https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/articles/the-future-of-human-machine-communications-the-turing-test/
Post-humanism and ecocide | http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/post-humanism_and_ecocide.html
How I Wrote Neuromancer | https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/26/william-gibson-neuromancer-book-club
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - WW2 influences | https://galaxypress.com/inspired-philip-k-dick/
Making of Blade Runner | https://youtu.be/ZPluJUQGHrg
“Cyberpunks” by Timothy Leary | https://urbigenous.net/library/cyberpunks.html
Equilibrium’s cyberpunk themes | https://static.anarchivism.org/cyberpunkreview-archive/www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/decade/2000-2009/equilibrium/index.html
Street Samurai Blog:
http://street-samurai.blogspot.com
William Gibson early writing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson#Early_writing_and_the_evolution_of_cyberpunk
William Gibson interview (1991) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVBCWFlgaXc&ab_channel=FreqOut
The Long Tomorrow, Metal Hurlant’s influence to cyberpunk media
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tomorrow_(comics)
William Gibson's Neuromancer and Science Fiction
http://mason.gmu.edu/~rutledge/neuromancer.htm
Defining Cyberpunk
http://mason.gmu.edu/~rutledge/neur_cyberpdefn.htm
The Cyberpunk Project
http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/index.html
Cyberpunk Historical Timeline
http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/timeline.html
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