Roundtable: Space Opera on the Silver Screen

Laurent Aknin, Axel Millieroux and Xavier Dollo

Saturday, October 1 – 5:30 pm

4BIS
4bis cours des Alliés – 35000 Rennes

Free admission

Laurent Aknin is a film historian and critic, as well as author of several works on book-to-film adaptations, the history of B- to Z-grade cinema, Sword-and-sandal films and the myths in popular cinema. 

Xavier Dollo owns a bookshop, is an editor (Argyll Editions), writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy, and does cartoon scripting (The Cartoon History of Science Fiction). 

Axel Millieroux is a film critic (Fais pas Genre ! online magazine and Contrebande podcast).

If Space Opera seems synonymous with space exploration, intergalactic interrogations and spaceships, what really is this Sci-Fi subgenre all about, and how has cinema adapted it to the likes of mortals?  

Having captured the hearts and souls of the human species from galaxies both near and far, the massive following having erupted from the sagas of Star Wars and Star Trek, not to mention Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 Space Odyssey, has demonstrated that Space Opera in film (like in literature) has its score of stupefaction, feeding cinephiles’ imagination to infinity and beyond. The stellar weave of politics, science, mythology and metaphysics brings both innovative and impending questions to the forefront. For a more explanatory angle onto this genre, the roundtable will be welcoming three specialists from the worlds of the imaginary.