Being and Time Travel: An Analysis of Time and Time Travel in Science Fiction

Pedersen, Jonas Kjærgaard

4. term

English, Master

2016

2016-05-30

74

Tidsrejser har siden H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine været en grundidé i science fiction, og måderne at bruge tidsrejser på er blevet mere komplekse over tid. Dette speciale undersøger, hvordan tidsrejser skildres i The Time Machine (1960), The Terminator (1984), Twelve Monkeys (1995), Donnie Darko (2001), Primer (2004) og BBC-serien Ashes to Ashes (2008). Det ser på, hvordan hvert værk behandler temaet forskelligt og kobler disse forskelle til spørgsmål om eksistens (den ontologiske problemstilling: hvad det vil sige at være). Specialet drøfter også almindelige tidsrejseparadokser. Analysen bygger på teori om science fiction, apokalyptiske fortællinger og tidsrejser og anvender et intersektionelt perspektiv for at undersøge, om der er en feministisk dagsorden i tidsrejsefortællinger.

Time travel has been a core idea in science fiction since H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine, and the ways stories use it have grown more complex over time. This thesis examines how time travel is portrayed in The Time Machine (1960), The Terminator (1984), Twelve Monkeys (1995), Donnie Darko (2001), Primer (2004), and the BBC series Ashes to Ashes (2008). It explores how each work treats time travel differently and connects these differences to questions of existence (the ontological question of what it means to be). The thesis also discusses common time travel paradoxes. The analysis draws on theory about science fiction, apocalyptic narratives, and time travel, and uses an intersectional perspective to investigate whether a feminist agenda is present in time travel narratives.

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Dommedag ; tidsrejser ; science fiction ; følelser ; film ; ontologi ; psycologi ; Intersektionalitet

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