¡Vigilad el cielo (y la tierra)! Cosas de este y del otro mundo

What and how many are the «Things» that have crowded science fiction literature and cinema, beginning with the story «Who goes there?», by John W. Campbell, and the first film, The Thing from AnotherWorld, extracted from this book by Christian Nyby and Howard Hawksand, after that, the remake by JohnCarpenter with the simple titleTheThing? And how do we get to thehistorical-political chart of Italy in the70s through the filter of sciencefiction? Why, for example, the Italymarked by the mafia power («CosaNostra») and terrorism becomes the privileged functional space of the «thing paradigm»? This paper is entrusted unravel the imperious ghost of these dark, sometimes concomitant, enduring, insidious, Italian «Things».

Analisi delle ragioni profonde della fantascienza tra letteratura e cinema, racconto e romanzo, dal paradigma Campbell/Hawks/Carpenter alle coincidenze significative italiane e alle applicazioni politico-indiziarie di Elio Petri, Nanni Moretti, Marco Bellocchio, Damiano Damiani e Michelangelo Antonioni.