"Mi smo zauzimali stavove": zvezdane staze i staze konflikata

Abstract

U ovom članku odnos masovnih medija i društvenih sukoba tematizuje se na način procenjivanja kako jedan određeni medij obrađuje aktuelne tenzije, ali i kako svojom obradom utiče na njih. Reč je o vizuelnom mediju, o televiziji i filmu, ali ne u njihovom „novinarskomˮ aspektu, već o žanru koji se i u tom mediju ostvario i tek tu stekao popularnost: o naučnoj fantastici. Na primeru serija i filmova „franšizeˮ Zvezdanih staza, prikazuje se „dijalektikaˮ uticaja konfliktne društvene zbilje na njene „fantastičneˮ (pre)adaptacije i, obrnuto, povratnog uticaja zamisli drugačijeg sveta na ovaj iz koga se zamišlja.

In this article, the relationship between media and social conflicts is tematized in the following way: the authors estimate how one particular medium deals with current tensions, but also how its treatment affects them. It is about a visual medium, about television and film, but not in their ˮjournalisticˮ aspect, but about the genre that realized itself and gained popularity in this medium: science fiction. Exemplifying series and films of the “Star Trekˮ franchise, the authors display the “dialecticsˮ of the impact of a conflicting social reality on its “fantasticˮ (re)adaptations and, conversely, the reverse influence of the conception of the other world on the one it is imagined from. Primarily, the authors discuss the relationship between science fiction visions of the future and the policy pursued at the time of its creation. After presenting the interpretations that praise the critical and emancipatory potential of the product of mass culture, special attention is paid to the opposite ones that discover camouflaged affirmation or justification of the foreign policy of the United States of America it. In conclusion, the authors argue for a well-measured interpretation according to which “Star Trek“ represented benevolent moral corrective to policies of the U. S. administration, whose scope and effect nevertheless remained limited and determined by the context in which it originated.