Alle radici di un nuovo immaginario. Alien, Blade Runner, La Cosa, Videodrome
Realizing that a look at otherness is inevitably also a look at oneself, at one’s own identity, a number of cinematic works released around the turn of the 1980s – Alien (1979) and Blade Runner (1982), both by Ridley Scott, John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) and David Cronenberg’s Videodrome (1983) -f aced the mounting identity fears of the period in a wholly new way by forcing them to confront increasingly frightening otherness. In films such as these, whose concepts of identity, otherness and space are investigated here, one can grasp the premises to our contemporaneity, the roots of a new imaginary.
Gioacchino Toni is a scholar of contemporary artistic and audiovisual phenomena.
Paolo Lago holds a PhD in Literature and Literary Sciences from the University of Verona and a PhD in Linguistic, Philological and Literary Sciences from the University of Padua. He works on the reception of antiquity, aesthetics of the novel, literature and cinema, and film theory and criticism.
