Cyberpunk Documentary PART 1 | Neuromancer, Blade Runner, Shadowrun, Akira

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Cyberpunk Documentary PART 1 | Neuromancer, Blade Runner, Shadowrun, Akira

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

0:02:19 – 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 cyberpunk authors, where the term came from
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 – CHAIN REACTION
0:25:20 – Cyberpunk, the 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 – VIRTUAL WORLDS
0:39:21 – Snatcher
0:41:50 – Neuromancer, the game
0:43:52 – Cyberpunk as a genre, literary symposium

MUSIC CREDITS

Outro music: ‘Flight Path’ by Kuedo
http://www.kuedo.co.uk/

Stock music licensed through http://www.EpidemicSound.com

Intro music is ‘Insomniac’ by Matt Large – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCRjagL6rhU

YouTube Audio Library:
‘Back Streets of Seoul’ by MK2
‘Descent’ by Houses of Heaven
‘Direct to Video’ by Chris Zabriskie
‘Dreamer’ by DivKid
‘Dreams Electric’ by Geographer
‘Frequency’ by Silent Partner
‘Lament Golden Light’ by Devon Church
‘Mist’ by Odonis Odonis
‘Virtual Light’ by Houses of Heaven
‘Where Are My Clothes’ by The 129ers

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

SOURCES

Gardner Dozois
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1984/12/30/science-fiction-in-the-eighties/526c3a06-f123-4668-9127-33e33f57e313/

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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