| الوصف: |
Science fiction has almost become the modern-day mythology, and compared to literature, it is a genre that attracts masses of people in the field of cinema. The ‘sublime,’ which is identified as one of the attractive aspects of science fiction literature, is a philosophical and aesthetic concept with a wide semantic variation associated with greatness, power and limitlessness. The expression of the sublime in cinema creates an emotion of ‘awe.’ Awe as a complex emotion is being increasingly explored in theoretical and empirical studies in recent years. In this study, the emotion of awe is examined on the example of Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014). The film has distinctive depictions of the sublime and it suggests two distinguishing features of awe (i.e., vastness and a need for accommodation) by treating various aspects of science fiction themes and by its affective qualities. It has been concluded that awe as a cinematic emotion is the emotional core of Interstellar. The film embodies the operational structure of awe. |
