Space Exploration Cinema in the New Century: A Sample of Narrative Renewal of the American Dream
Abstract
Within the second decade of the 21st century we are witnessing a golden age of space exploration cinema in spite of other action genres, such as thriller or war film. This phenomenon has promoted traditional values of the American dream like the refoundation of home, the search of prosperity, or a sense of mission. This is also a tendency in contrast with the filmic “spectacles of the destruction” which, according to experts like Dixon, Kellner or Quart and Auster, dominate a culture of the apocalypse established in the first decade of the century. This work aims to analyze to what extent the six film productions about space travel, released between 2013 and 2018, have contributed to a renovation of the American dream during one its worst crisis.Downloads
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