scholarly journals Przyszłość już była. Dystopie w najnowszym kinie science fiction Ameryki Łacińskiej

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (37) ◽  
pp. 167-175
Author(s):  
Bolesław Racięski
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
American Science ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
The Common ◽  
Future Citizen ◽  
Common Understanding

This paper examines the various ways in which contemporary Latin American science fiction films contest the neocolonial and neoliberal narratives, dominant in the region since the 20th century. I identify and examine strategies that filmmakers employ to challenge the common understanding of such notions as time, modernity and technological progress. I outline the visions of dystopias presented in the examined films, while also analyzing the counter-narratives introduced by filmmakers, which are mostly focused on creating a new, hybrid identity for a future citizen.

scholarly journals GENRE VARIETY OF THE 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION

2019 ◽  
pp. 214-223
Author(s):  
Rafael AHMEDOV
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
American Science

The article covers the issue of genre heterogeneity of the 20th century American science fiction (SF). It is argued that American SF of that period was represented mainly by three subgenres: hard SF, socio-philosophical SF, and adventurous SF, that differ from each other not only in structure/content, but also in terms of genre. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that genre approach has been applied to classify American science fiction of the 20th century. Мазкур мақолада АҚШ XX аср илмий фантастикасининг хилма-хилл иги ўрганилган. Ўша даврдаги Америка илмий фантастикасини асосан қуйидаги учта кичик жанрлар мужассам этади: барқарор илмий фантастика, ижтимоий-фалсафий илмий фантастика ва саргузашт илмий фантастика. Улар нафақат структура ва мазмун жиҳатидан, балки жанраспектлари бўйича ҳам фарқланади. Мазкур тадқиқотнинг илмий янгилиги ХХ аср Америка илмий фантастикасини классификация қилишда жанрий ёндашувни қўллашдан иборат. В статье рассматривается вопрос разнородности американской научной фантастики (НФ) XXвека. Американскую научную фантастику того периода в основном представляют три поджанра: твёрдая НФ, социально-философская НФ и приключенческая НФ, — которые различаются не только по структуре и содержанию, но и в жанровом аспекте. Новизна данного исследования заключается в применении жанрового подхода при классификации американской научной фантастики XX века.

Escaping the map: American science fiction and its cartographic imagination

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Italiano
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
The Other ◽  
American Science ◽  
Global Spread ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One ◽  
Fredric Jameson ◽  
Spatial Imagination

The beginning of Space Age coincided with the global spread of a subterranean, post-apocalyptic imagination of the bunker. The coexistence of faith in technological progress and fear of a nuclear-caused self-annihilation created a tension between a claustrophilic and a claustrophobic relation to space that deeply shaped American spatial imagination. As I argue in this article, this spatial tension can be profitably illustrated by focusing on the cartographic imagination of science fiction produced in America between the 1950s and the 1980s. Drawing on David Seed and Fredric Jameson among others and focusing on both exemplary novels and films, this article shows to what extent Cold War American science fiction not only translates territorial anxieties into alternative universes or versions of the future, but spatially stages its inner conflict, the tension between a claustrophobic distress on the one hand and an unfulfilled claustrophilia on the other.

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