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10 articles on this topic.
July 12, 2026
An anthropological reading of science-fiction music: John Williams's mythic symphonism set against Jerry Goldsmith's unsettling, liminal and experimental cosmos.
June 18, 2026
Cinema, Otherness and the Human Mirror.
June 14, 2026
An anthropological reading of Jerry Goldsmith's score for Planet of the Apes, an impure, modern and displaced music for a civilization after man.
May 20, 2026
Two films suggest that extraterrestrial contact is not chiefly a technical problem but a philosophical one: how do we speak to what resists understanding?
May 4, 2026
The alien as a cultural figure in a polarized world where denialism and the far right coexist with cinematic narratives of progress.
April 13, 2026
How Star Trek reshaped the screen alien through humanism, diplomacy and a utopian idea of the future.
February 9, 2026
The extraterrestrial as messiah is one of science-fiction cinema's persistent motifs: an outside agent who arrives to redeem us from ourselves.
January 12, 2026
Long before cinema imagined alien life, our species lived alongside beings not entirely like us: Neanderthals, Denisovans and other hominins.
December 5, 2025
How Andrei Tarkovsky shaped a poetic, metaphysical alternative to Western science fiction in Solaris and Stalker.
May 5, 2025
Susan Sontag's The Imagination of Disaster as a lens for 1950s science-fiction cinema.