Le controfigure di Dio. Da Blade Runner ad Avatar

• Autores: Nicoletta Vallorani
• Localización: Altre Modernità: Rivista di studi letterari e culturali, ISSN-e 2035-7680, Nº. Extra 1, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: La Biblia en escena), págs. 126-135
• Idioma: italiano
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  • The issue of the relationship between the creator and his/her creature has been often dealt with in dystopia and science fiction films, and in recent times it has taken on a specific flavor, less related to the implications of science and more connected to a symbolic dimension that goes back to the Bible as a fruitful reservoir of myths and archetypes. The Biblical parable of the creation in particular flows into narratives recalling familiar names and places, but deeply revising the creator/creature relationship, that is unfolded through the poetic unacceptability of death in Blade Runner (1982) and the possibility of a new life in a new body dwelling in the fictional Eden of Avatar (2010).