Images of the future in cinema: the transformation of cultural paradigm

The subject of the study is the tendency of representation of stable images of the future in cinema as a tool of cultural forecasting. Cinema, with its extensive instrumentation and synthetic nature, has become an ideal polygon for the realisation of prognostic visual representations of the near and distant future. At the same time, being a product of culture, it is capable of transmitting socio-cultural values, beliefs and ideologies. The aim of this article is to explore the transformation of cultural paradigms in cinema through the visualization of the image of the future in cinema and the ways of its modeling on the screen; analyze how projections of specific problems have changed over time through the visual language of the future through cinema. The study is based on a cultural and sociocultural analysis of film productions, focusing on the identification of sociocultural guidelines through the visual component and narrative discourse. A comparative and axiological approach is used to capture the dynamics of changes in the representation of the image of the future in cinema of different time periods. The author claims that cinema not only reflects but also actively constructs perceptions through the visual image. The main component of modeling a futurological image is the material environment and objects within it. The representation of the image of the future is based on the extrapolation of the problematic socio-cultural discourse of reality. With the change of epochs, the change of cultural coordinates is traced, depicting the problems and the technological stage of progress of their time, and the main categories that are present to a greater or lesser extent in all futurological cinema are identified: social inequality, the relationship between man and machine, the impact of technology on society, control and freedom of the individual.

image of the future, cultural paradigm, cultural forecasting, sociocultural guidelines, space of the future, transformation of culture, cultural code, cinema, sci-fi films, futurology