Imagining decline or sustainability: Hope, fear, and ideological discourse in Hollywood speculative fiction by Clayton Dasilva

“…When the environment is prominent as a theme, that is, these films more often explore its destruction—often by humans—and the conditions of existence within such environments.…”
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Eschatological Technophobia: Cinematic Anticipations of the Singularity by Daniel Conway

“…Following my critique of several films that rely, uncreatively, on the trope of eschatological technophobia, I turn to a consideration of two relatively recent films in the genre: Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014) and Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival (2016). …”
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Terra somente by David Castro Netto, Roger Domenech Colacios

“…Nossa discussão se dará a partir de três filmes: 2012 (2009), Elysium (2013) e Interstellar (2014), obras cinematográficas representativas do argumento defendido, ou seja, a relação entre ficção científica, cinema e meio ambiente.…”
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Discourses in science fiction movies: science teaching and the production of meanings in the socio-environmental perspective by Júlio César David Ferreira, Roberto Gonçalves Barbosa

“…We analyze the discursive materiality of the movies Interstellar (NOLAN, 2014) and The Martian (SCOTT, 2015) from the French side of Discourse Analysis. …”
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Uncovering the chiral bias of meteoritic isovaline through asymmetric photochemistry by Jana Bocková, Nykola C. Jones, Jérémie Topin, Søren V. Hoffmann, Cornelia Meinert

“…As analogues to amino acids adsorbed on interstellar dust grains, CPL-helicity dependent enantiomeric excesses of up to 2% were generated in isotropic racemic films of isovaline. …”
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“When Good Doctors Go Bad:" by Julia Bolzon

“…A trivial example I was reminded of is in the film Interstellar, when Cooper doesn’t agree with Amelia’s decision to go to Edmund’s planet–a decision she based on nothing other than her intuition-because it was an emotional and not logical one…”
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