Science fiction as a cinematographic genre is consolidated through a series of determined style features that enhance its empirical horizons, leading the genre and its discourse to become an inexorable part of the social contexts that knew how to condition and shape the evolutionary processes of cinema as an artistic manifestation.
The following essay attempts to unravel certain approaches about the role of the masses, science and the view towards the other in science fiction, nodal aspects of the genre. At the same time, it seeks to emphasize the attachment of this kind of stories to social fervor and the new conceptions of reality that made the paradigms of Modernity fluctuate in an ultimate way, around the middle of the 20th century. For this purpose, this work addresses a set of famous films from different territories: The incredible shrinking man (Jack Arnold), La Jetée (Chris Marker), Invasión (Hugo Santiago), etc.
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