doi:10.28914/Atlantis-2018-40.2.07engGómez Muñoz, PabloThe Alien as a Vehicle for Cosmopolitan Discourses: The Case of The Day the Earth Stood StillART-2018-109621This article looks at the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still (Derrickson 2008) as a representative example of a group of early twenty-first century science fiction films that have shown remarkable interest in transnational and global phenomena. Given the recent emphasis of the genre on these issues, this article proposes cosmopolitanism as a particularly useful theoretical framework for analyzing contemporary science fiction. The article focuses on the remake’s reliance on the figure of the alien and its destructive potential as a means of drawing attention to the global threat of climate change. The Day the Earth Stood Still presents cosmopolitanism as a perspective and way of acting that develops as a response to specific transnational challenges.Keywords: The Day the Earth Stood Still; science fiction; film; cosmopolitanism; alien; climate change2018http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/7700010.28914/Atlantis-2018-40.2.07http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/77000oai:zaguan.unizar.es:77000info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H12info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FFI2013-43968-PATLANTIS-JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH ASSOCIATION OF ANGLO-AMERICAN STUDIES 40, 2 (2018), 123-144by-nc-sahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess