Understanding and demonstrating the contribution of objects to the construction of the idea of future in science fiction films

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The science fiction cinema is often concerned about future, and presents to its audience possible alternatives for it. Each science fiction film about the future constructs a different idea in the audience’s mind and supports a currently existing ideology at the same time. The science fiction genre extrapolates and speculates about future which results in a new world: Aliens, androids or clones become participants of this world, intergalactic federations regulate diplomatic relationships or natural disasters endanger the whole humankind. The indispensable factor in every case is that new objects surround the future. They are extrapolated or speculated as well from the objects of today in order to fit to and satisfy the needs of the future world of the science fiction film. The ideas about the future presented in the film are supported by the material existence of these future objects. This study demonstrates the ideas and ideologies in respect to future in the science fiction cinema and investigates how the future objects contribute to constructing them.

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Science Fiction., Industrial design.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609519/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/17704

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G. Toker, “Understanding and demonstrating the contribution of objects to the construction of the idea of future in science fiction films,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2008.