Cinematic mixology, some critical corroborations. Connections, Convergences, Combinations and Commutations in Contemporary Culture
Cinematic mixology, some critical corroborations. Connections, Convergences, Combinations and Commutations in Contemporary Culture

Summary/Abstract: Many authors have critically evaluated our popular culture as an expression of hybridization, with cinema at the forefront of this process. Often used as a term negative term, hybridization was either seen as a sign of creative decay, or the mixing of opposites. The author proposes another working concept, that of cinematic mixology, claiming for a new science of interpreting cultural objects. Following the mathematical science called combinatorics, which provide theorems explaining the principles of serial permutations, and using the suggestions of neurosciences about connectivity, the paper makes use of the analysis of impossible pairings in film narratives. The author rejects the notion of finite morphism of cinema and proposes the reevaluation, by critical corroborations, of some of the newest connections and convergences apparent in today's popular culture. The conclusion is that we are witnessing a real “Frankensteinization” of our imaginaries, where the connections and combinations have reached a stage of total amalgamation.

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