The Rhetoric of the Science Fiction Film in Utopian and Dystopian “Worlds in Collision”: The Matrix Tetralogy (1999, 2003, 2021) and Transcendence (2014)
The Rhetoric of the Science Fiction Film in Utopian and Dystopian “Worlds in Collision”: The Matrix Tetralogy (1999, 2003, 2021) and Transcendence (2014)

Summary/Abstract: The present paper investigates figural techniques and features of the sci-fi genre in The Matrix Tetralogy (The Matrix / The Matrix Reloaded / The Matrix Revolutions / The Matrix Resurrections) – directors Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski (1999, 2003, 2003, 2021) – and Transcendence (director Wally Pfister, 2014), in which the film medium becomes an intermediation of dystopian / utopian worlds. The focus will lie on film techniques (mise en scene, cinematography, editing, sound) as poetics of the science fiction film able to intermediate a hyperreality.

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