Blast from the past: hopeful retrofuturism in science fiction film
Blast from the past: hopeful retrofuturism in science fiction film
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过去的爆炸:科幻电影中充满希望的复古未来主义
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10.1080/10304312.2019.1668352
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2019
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Davidson J
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Davidson J
Observing images of jetpacks, flying cars and space colonization today provokes a contradictory reaction. On the one hand, such phenomena remain unrealized and unfamiliar in everyday life but, on the other, they are indexed in the contemporary cultural imaginary to a particular historical moment: the technophilic futurism of the mid-twentieth century. This paradoxical coming together of the future and the past is at the core of the retrofuturist impulse, or the conscious reprisal of disappointed visions of yesterday’s tomorrows. In this article, drawing on a number of science fiction films, I argue that the return to past images of the future has a potentially hopeful function, playing a role in rejuvenating and renewing utopian desire in the contemporary world. After discussing the current literature on retrofuturism, I turn to the work of the great utopian scholar Ernst Bloch, whose account of the dialectic of hope and disappointment offers a productive means by which to understand the residual utopian quality of the technological futures of the twentieth century. On this basis, I analyse two recent science fiction films,Elysium(2013) andTomorrowland(2015), that bring together retrofuturist imagery and a hopeful disposition.
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