Le « clone » comme figure méta-sérielle dans le cinéma de science-fiction à l’ère des images de synthèse

Abstract

This study examines the effects on filmic narrative and representation of a motif that has gained popularity in the digital age, the "clone", in science fiction film series – approached as serial practices related to but distinct from television series – particularly in "Alien" and "Resident Evil". By exploiting (often female) characters demultiplied through clones, these narratives thematize within the fiction, through an extrapolation on the possibilities of biotechnologies and in a metaphorical way allowing to combine reflexivity and immersion, the very status of the serial work, and this all the more in the XXIth century when computer graphics offer the possibility of easily creating "avatars".

Keywords

• cinéma
• personnage
• science-fiction
• sérialité
• réflexivité
• clone