Popular Culture Wars: Racism, Gender and Empire and the Transformations of 21st Century Capitalism Doru POP Abstract: Isaac Asimov’s Foundation and Frank Herbert’s Dune were considered to be “unadaptable” works. This paper critically discusses Villeneuve’s Dune and the TV series created by AppleTV+, a revision of the “Foundation”, overviewing the controversies surrounding the recre... Read More Keywords: Isaac Asimov, Foundation, Frank Herbert, Dune, capitalism, racial cinema, science fiction, racism, imperialism, chimeric cinema |
De-orientalizing Dune: Storyworld-Building Between Frank Herbert’s Novel and Denis Villeneuve’s Film Yosr DRIDI Abstract: In Dune (1965), Frank Herbert builds an SF universe that, although futuristic, remains geopolitically reminiscent of our historical world, with ethnically and culturally identifiable characters. For all his storyworld-building efforts, Herbert’s representation of the desert planet Arrakis and his Arab... Read More Keywords: science-fiction, orientalism, cinematic adaptation, storyworld-building |
Searching for Something in Sci-Fi Movies Ion INDOLEAN Abstract: This article seeks to understand the way in which the Canadian director Denis Villeuneve sees his protagonist, Paul Atreides from Dune (2021)—based on the eponymous novel by Frank Herbert, as a starting point for almost every successful sci-fi movie in history: a good story, full of theological myths,... Read More Keywords: Dune, Frank Herbert, Dennis Villeneuve, Ridley Scott, Alien, Blade Runner, sci-fi sagas, space epic genre, good, evil, humanity, artificial intelligence, robots |
A Genuine Messiah: The Erosion of Political Messaging in Dune 2021 Misha Grifka WANDER Abstract: Frank Herbert’s sprawling Dune epic critiques imperialism, colonialism, and the notion of a messiah figure. Herbert drew heavily on Islamic thought and culture, incorporating it throughout the books, while also interrogating the problematic structure of thinking that leads to messianic figures and the... Read More Keywords: Dune, science fiction, movie adaptations, orientalism, messianic figures, hero’s journey |
Mehmet SARI Abstract: Science fiction narratives illuminate the human condition by estranging us from our perception of reality and presenting authentic, imaginative frameworks. This article examines how the television series Foundation (Apple TV+, 2021-) approaches human value systems and emerging conflicts from a Spiral Dynami... Read More Keywords: Science fiction sagas, Spiral Dynamics, systems thinking, value systems, cultural conflicts, culture wars, Foundation |
In-Betweenness in the Post-Media Age Mihai DRAGOLEA Abstract: Review of: Caught In-Between: Intermediality in Contemporary Eastern European and Russian Cinema, Ágnes Pethő (Ed.). Edinburgh University Press, 2020 Read MoreKeywords: Caught In-Between: Intermediality in Contemporary Eastern European and Russian Cinema, Ágnes Pethő, Edinburgh University Press |
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