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.

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 The voice and the void: the scream in 1950s American science fiction film

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Hergott
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
The United States ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Special Effects ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
American Science ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
American Society

In the United States, science fiction film rose to prominence as a critically recognized genre in the 1950s, a decade fraught with cultural complications and contradictions and also inspired by optimism and upward trajectory. Warren Susman characterizes the period as one marked by a "dual consciousness," a time when "the fulfillment of our sweetest desires [led] inevitably to the brink of danger and damnation"; the fifties, he writes, was an age of anxiety as much as it was a time of abundance, freedom, and possibility (30). For historian David Halberstam, while a retrospective examination of the decade suggests to some a "slower, almost languid" pace, social ferment "was beginning just beneath this placid surface" (ix). Throughout the decade, notions of national security played out in conflicting ways that traversed both the public and private spheres. Science fiction, a genre that coincided with massive industry changes that saw the development of a sizable low-budget, teen-oriented independent sector, resonated deeply with such opposing and anxiety-laden articulations of both public and private security. While most previous discussions of the genre tend to focus on such concerns in their public dimension (particularly as related to political unease during the Cold War), what follows will address sci-fi' s depiction of anxieties in that other, more private realm of American society, particularly in relation to the expression of gender, sexuality, and desire. Cold War politics, the postwar consumer boom, re-entrenchment of family values and suburban home life, and industry upheavals in Hollywood are all important for understanding what is now thought of as the golden age of American science fiction film. These socio-political factors contextualize the genre's rise to prominence, its defining stylistic and thematic characteristics, and its treatment of gendered subjectivity. As we will see, while some science fiction films of the 1950s engaged or challenged cultural rhetoric related to expected norms of gendered behaviour, for the most part these films upheld the era's return to more traditional gender roles for men and women, an observation which has been taken up in the critical literature, particularly within feminist film scholarship. However, within this body of films exists a common and recurring convention that has been largely neglected by science fiction film scholars, one that warrants further study due to its implications for understanding the return to domesticity in the American postwar period. This filmic convention is the scream, a visual and aural articulation of fear expressed mostly by women (but also, and just as importantly, by men). Far from being a mere cheap gimmick employed by filmmakers alongside special effects and insatiable monsters, the scream provides valuable insight into the domestic ideologies that prevailed during the 1950s.

scholarly journals THE ADVANCEMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE A WAY TO MAN AND MACHINE IN COMBAT IN TIME MACHINE AND I ROBOT

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-16
Author(s):  
Sumathi R ◽  
Sutharshan V
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Time Machine ◽  
General Outline ◽  
Fantasy Fiction ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Future Events

Science fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It can be explained as a combination of science and technology and development in robotics in short it can be otherwise called as ‘realistic speculation about future events and a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment. It has been called a form of fantasy fiction and an historical literature. The paper goes further with two main concepts one with clash between two people of future and the other with advancement of science particularly on robotics. First is about general outline to science fiction in short a (SF) a genre cause problem because itdoes not recognize the hybrid nature of many SF works. It is more helpful to think of it as a mode or field where different genres and subgenres intersect. And then there is the issue of science. In the early decades of the 20th century, a number of writers attempted to tie this fiction to science and event to use it as a means of promoting scientific knowledge, a position which continues into what has become known as ‘hard SF’. The research article is completely based on advancement of science and its effects.

Contemporary American Science Fiction Film

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence McSweeney ◽  
Stuart Joy
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
American Science
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