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DNA information visualization in Jurassic Park from Jurassic Park (1993)

The animated information visualization sequence from Jurassic Park explaining how DNA was used to create dynosaurs

A white time traveller teaches Chuck Berry to play guitar from Back to the Future (1985)

Michael J. Fox offers a preview of rock and roll guitar styles from Chuck Berry and Jimi Hendrix to Pete Townshend at a 1955 sock hop

Sleeper Cell target selection from Sleeper Cell (2005)

An Islamic terror cell debates potential targets around Los Angeles

Apple ad: Rip. Mix. Burn from Rip. Mix. Burn. (2006)

In the first iPod ad from 2006, a white teenager assembles an eclectic playlist from live performers in a concert hall

Code 46 title sequence from Code 46 (2003)

The opening sequence of Michael Winterbottom's Code 46 illustrating narrative and environmental exposition through cinematography and title design

Drones attack an alien robot from The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

The use of attack drones in Hollywood movies helps with military recruiting

Blackface montage from Tropic Thunder from Tropic Thunder (2008)

A contemporary example of blackface in Hollywood cinema makes a cynical attempt to disarm public objection

Sleeper Cell title sequence crystallizes post-9/11 anxieties from Sleeper Cell (2005)

The title design sequence of Sleeper Cell brings together multiple tropes of post-9/11 terrorism anxiety

Pepsi / iTunes ad from I Fought the Law (2004)

Ad for Pepsi and iTunes uses real world teenagers accused of illegal music downloading

Gamer talk show interview from Gamer (2009)

Crass popular culture aesthetics of TV and virtual reality are highlighted in this expository sequence from the movie Gamer

Government vs. Science in Day the Earth Stood Still from The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

In the 2008 remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still, government and military authority dominates science

Wild Palms VR telepresence in the web from Wild Palms (1993)

A paraplegic designer is the key to a VR technology to be used for world domination over "the web" by a secret society in Wild Palms

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