Do Tread on My Dreams: The Perception of Cityscape in Science Fiction Films

Cem KILIÇARSLAN

Makale detayları

Do Tread on My Dreams: The Perception of Cityscape in Science Fiction Films

Yazarlar:

Cem KILIÇARSLAN

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2007 Issue 25, pp.45-66

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2007

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000734770

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606

Özet:

 

The city, the urban landscape with its idiosyncratic skyline and bird’s eye  presentations, has been one of the most dominant and recurring images of the  cinematic representations of the science fiction genre. This preoccupation with  the city and its visual depictions is hardly coincidental. An analysis of science  fiction films with regards to their utilization of the cityscape and individual  works of architecture reveals that there is a correlation between the meaning  created by the science fiction film and the works of architecture shown on the  screen. The architectural elements used in science fiction films are primarily  compelling representatives of the modernist architecture and urban planning.  Therefore, they make a visual commentary on the meaning created by the film in  parallel with the ideology and mentality of the modernist thinking. Nevertheless,  a survey of prominent examples of the science fiction genre reveals that these  films make use of modernist architecture and urban planning to depict an  inhuman, oppressive and totalitarian world; a view remarkably in contradiction  with the basic tenets of the modernist ideal.

Makale detayları

Do Tread on My Dreams: The Perception of Cityscape in Science Fiction Films

Yazarlar: Cem KILIÇARSLAN

Yayıncı: American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi: Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2007 Issue 25, pp.45-66

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 3/2007

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000734770

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

pISSN: 1300-6606

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Cem KILIÇARSLAN

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2007 Issue 25, pp.45-66

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2007

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000734770

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606