63416 20260227124018.0 sideral 102310 ART-2015-102310 eng Echeverría Domingo, Julia (orcid)0000-0002-3483-5271 Liquid Cinematography and the Representation of Viral Threats in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men 2015 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Recent cinema has been a reliable purveyor of dystopian tales that focus on the global spread of viruses. The anxiety and fascination over the end of the world and, in particular, over the invasion of infectious pathogens has turned these films into apt modes of expression of a post-9/11 context of pervasive fear that sociologists like Ulrich Beck have termed “world risk society.” This article provides a close textual analysis of one of these films, Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men (2006), situating it at the forefront of this trend. Following Zygmunt Bauman’s notion of liquid fear, this article aims to explore how the visual language of the long take and the continuous superposition of intertextual references help to construct a liquid space and time in which viral threats, like epidemics and immunological fear mongering discourses on terrorism and migration, easily proliferate. The infertility epidemic works as a suitable metaphor of this liquid environment, representing not only the barren malaise of our globalized times but also every invisible fear that spreads across borders, invades and segregates individuals into healthy Us and contaminated and dehumanized Others. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H12 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MEC/AP2009-3440 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FFI2010-15312 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-sa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.es 0.029 2015 LINGUISTICS 176 / 177 = 0.994 2015 Q4 T3 0.122 2015 Literature and Literary Theory 2015 Q2 Linguistics and Language 2015 Q3 Cultural Studies 2015 Q3 Language and Linguistics 2015 Q3 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 37, 2 (2015), 137-153 Atlantis rev. Asoc. esp. Estud. Anglo-Norteam. ATLANTIS-JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH ASSOCIATION OF ANGLO-AMERICAN STUDIES 0210-6124 1012515 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/63416/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 52503 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/63416/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada https://www.atlantisjournal.org/index.php/atlantis/article/view/271 Texto completo de la revista oai:zaguan.unizar.es:63416 articulos driver 2026-02-27-12:39:19 ARTICLE