N. 22 (2024): Il Prometeo digitale: cinema, mito e narrazioni del futuro
Dossier

Star Wars come esercizio di futuro. La funzione anticipatoria del cinema nel mondo della galassia lontana lontana

Luca Bertoloni
Biografia

Pubblicato 21-01-2025

Parole chiave

  • Star Wars,
  • transmedia storytelling,
  • anticipation,
  • imaginary,
  • cinema

Abstract

The category of the future played a central role in practical and operational terms within the construction of the Star Wars brand universe. In this world the future is configured as the interstitial terrain in which the dimension of the story is welded with the technical one of staging. In particular cinema, using some elements of science fiction and myth, actives an anticipatory function that allows history to be configured as potentially open, and technical innovations to be experimented in a new way.