Dialogues between fictional narratives, film imaginaries and technological advances
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The article sets out the main objective of analyzing the bidirectional relationship between fictional audiovisual narratives and contemporary technoscientific imaginaries in order to address the following question: do scientific innovations imitate cinema, or is it cinema that anticipates the hidden desires of science? To this end, the study conducts a film analysis of science fiction films and television series, complemented by a critical review of the specialized literature. The results show how cinematic narratives have predicted technological innovations decades in advance, while certain works of fiction have raised ethical and philosophical debates about scientific progress and technological determinism before these emerged in reality. The article concludes that science fiction has anticipated numerous technological advances and that the works analyzed go beyond the model of cinema as a mere mirror: through a fictional entanglement, they transcend their entertainment function and become a critical space that questions the limits of society in relation to technoscience, while providing conceptual frameworks that encourage reflection on bioethics and posthumanism.
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