İşgal Edilen Beden, Farklılaşan İnsan Ve Beden Kıyametleri: “The Host” Filmi Üzerine Çokkültürcülük Perspektifinden Bir İnceleme
The Occupied Body, Differentiating Human and Body Apocalypse: A Study from a Multiculturalist Perspective on “The Host”

Summary/Abstract: One of the prominent subjects in science fiction cinema is the “invasion” films that make visible the efforts to destroy the self and identity of individuals in the society by an alien. These films, which gained intensity after the Second World War, stem from various ideological fears and highlight the destructive and threatening body invasions from outside the world. Films of this type, which can be expressed as the “body apocalypse” or “host-apocalypse”, provide an important reference in terms of imagining the other as well as establishing one’s own self and identity. In this study, this kind of body apocalypse motif was examined through The Host (2013) movie directed by Andrew Niccol. The film is based on the dichotomy of “self” / “other” and “atomism”, “holism”, one of the prominent approaches in social sciences, has been criticized through the film. The possibilities of a dialectical interaction between the self and the other that Brian Fay’s “interactionism” and “engagement” approaches put forward were questioned through the film narrative and images. Although the film reveals phenomena such as marginalization in the cultural universe of the occupier and the occupied, it denies utopia because it is not “fun”. Aliens are accepted as long as they act anthropocentrically, that is, they change sides and join human resistance and give up their will for radical difference from the dominant cultural values of humanity. In this context, being the other and being different is basically associated with a suppression process.

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