Hollywood heroes in high tech risk societies: modern fairy tales and emerging technologies

Abstract

Science, research and emerging technologies often play a key role in manymodern action movies. In this contribution we suggest to use genreanalysis of folk narratives as an innovative and useful tool forunderstanding science and technology in action movies. In this contributionwe outline our approach using illustrative examples and detail howunderstanding action movies as modern fairy tales can benefit the study ofscience, research and technology in popular culture.