Resena: World without end (Historicity and the contemporary science fiction cinema). This thesis is an analysis of North American science fiction cinema, from 1985-1999, in which the role of history and historicity is evaluated. Time has always been a central preoccupation of SF, but the thematic importance of the past as temporality has long been undermined by critics. History plays a much more constructive role in contemporary SF than previous critics have allowed. The literal "presence " of signifiers of the "past " services narratives which are often fundamentally moralistic in nature. Science fiction 's historicity is employed to prevent the alienation of "future shock " - the estranging tendencies of new technologies - which necessitate new modes of epistemological and ontological adaptation. In such films, history plays the vital function of conscience. Representations of familiar futures are not necessarily conservative, but are indicative of a development in SF that refuses to celebrate progress at the expense of history.

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Categoría: Lengua y Literatura, Ensayo

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