THE APOSTLES OF INTERGALACTIC RELIGIOCITY. MOTIF OF SPACE CONTACT IN NEW HOLLYWOOD CINEMA (Apostolowie miedzygwiezdnej religijnosci. Motyw kosmicznego konfliktu w kinie nowej przygody)

• Authors: Konefal Sebastian Jakub
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

American science fiction cinema of the 1970s began To employ eclectically presented references to eclectic views on religious topics. Films directed by artists such as Steven Spielberg and George Lucas offered viewers the stories influenced by the Christian and Buddhist symbolism as well as selected theses of the New Age Movements. The authors wanted to create in their productions new religiousness patterns, derived from the writings of some leading figures of the counterculture, such as Herbert Marcuse, Charles Reich, and Theodore Roszak. For this purpose they processed some storylines from science fiction novels and mass culture. This strategy was continued in the 1980s and first half of the 1990s, however the productions from this period showed a radicalization of the educational-ideological context which was associated with the conservative policy of the USA during this period. The end of the 1990s and the first decade of the twenty-first century is a period of erosion the New Age optimism of science fiction cinema. The growing popularity of plots with catastrophic and dystopian visions of the future indicates that religious topic in contemporary cinema fulfills different functions.

Keywords

EN

CINEMA; COUNTERCULTURE; FILM; NEW AGE MOVEMENTS; SCIENCE FICTION

Discipline

• MEDIA_&_COMMUNICATION: MEDIA & COMMUNICATION

• Publisher: AGH University of Science and Technology
• Journal: Studia Humanistyczne AGH
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 9
• Pages: 85-96
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Konefal Sebastian Jakub

• Jakub Sebastian Konefal, Uniwersytet Gdanski, Wydzial Filologiczny, Katedra Kulturoznawstwa, ul. Grunwaldzka 238 a,  80-266 Gdansk, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA094317