Star Wars as an exercise in the future. The anticipatory function of cinema in the galaxy far, far away

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.