| Titre | La ville américaine dans le cinéma de science-fiction américain | |
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| Auteur | Alexandre Hougron | |
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Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
| Numéro | no 56, mai 1993 Images de l'Amérique dans le cinéma américain. | |
| Page | 10 pages | |
| Résumé anglais |
American science fiction movies generally contain the most achieved and suggestive urban fantasies. All representations of the American city in such movies mostly depend on two components : Myth and History. Symbolized as the achievement of a noble Humanity, the city is often presented as suffering form the harsh assaults of a hostile and alien identity : monsters, or extraterrestrial beings. A second representation, depicting the cities under nightmarish features, came later and is to be related to the recent evolution of American cities. In such movies as Blade Runner, Invasion Los Angeles, Terminator, or Robocop, the enemy is no more an extraneous entity, but it spreads out from the corrupted heart of the decaying city, and one can see in this interiorization of the evil forces threatening the city dwellers the long way covered since the confident days of the consumer society to the present-day fears of American life. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfea_0397-7870_1993_num_56_1_1493 |
