História e cinema: o futuro como distopia em Mad Max, Blade Runner, 1984 e RoboCop

Abstract

This dissertation seeks to analyze the past from of the argumentative and imagery elements that make up four science fiction film works produced between 1979 and 1987. Mad Max, from 1979, Blade Runner, from 1982, 1984, from 1984, and RoboCop, from 1987, expose the public to representations of futures in which the living conditions of society present a degradation that makes that time/place a dystopia. These projections of the future indicate themes and concerns regarding the period and place in which they were designed and reveal the spaces of experiences from which these horizons of expectations depart. Wars, diverse precariousness and worsening of violence configure as the common and determining characteristics in these narratives materialized by different scenarios indifferent futures.