Author
Francisco Oteiza Lacalle
Biography
Francisco Oteiza Lacalle is the author of What are aliens for?: An Essay on Cinema and the Extraterrestrial Imagination (Editorial Sindéresis, 2025), an essay that studies representations of the alien in international cinema as an allegory of our social, political and cultural contradictions.
His background in social and cultural anthropology shapes an approach that combines academic analysis with the gaze of a film lover. The book is the result of four years of research and more than two hundred bibliographical sources, covering a corpus of one hundred and seventy films and series across the history of science-fiction cinema.
The articles on this site explore the central ideas of the book: otherness, fear, identity and cinema as a mechanism of distance that allows us to say what would otherwise be unsayable.
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