La debilitada posición de la ciencia ficción literaria: Tensiones entre la pantalla y la página

Abstract

This essay addresses two issues: first, why there is a clear disconnection between written and filmed SF today despite the rich period written SF is going through; second, the strategies used to study SF. This disconnection, quite perplexing given the full establishment of film SF as a successful genre since the late 1970s is due, as I argue, to conditions specific to the film industry, not to the nature of the genre. This is obscured, precisely, by the questionable apparoach to the study of genre, split in different narrative media rather than made coherent by a supra-media perspective.