Odczuwanie obcości. Afektywność współczesnego science fiction
Experiencing Estrangement. Affectiveness of Contemporary Science Fiction

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an affective analysis of contemporary science-fiction films, exploring the specificity of female experience within the phenomenon. I argue that affective and emotional contact with extra-terrestrial estrangement is a significant symptom of genre modification. This experience is also embodied by viewers. Despite the iconography and attempts to popularize science specific to the genre, the narration mode of "Interstellar" (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2014), "Arrival" (dir. Denis Villeneuve, 2016) and "Annihilation" (dir. Alex Garland, 2018) is melodrama, and the characters think and act not only through knowledge or reasoning, but also through emotions or affects. The article analyzes the following aspects of the latest science-fiction films: corporeal notion of estrangement, affective feedback between the known and unknown, alternative experience of time mediated by achronological narration, focalization and kinodynamics of cosmic spectacles, as well as affective audience experiences: embodiment, empathy and identification.

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