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- Title
Without a Conceivable Future: Figuring the Mother in Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men.
- Authors
SPARLING, NICOLE L.
- Abstract
The article presents criticism on the film "Children of Men," directed by Alfonso Cuarón. It explores the use mother figures, irony, and visual rhetoric in the film. It highlights the depiction of future Great Britain as a society in which democratic ideals are undercut by constant policing. Other topics include science fiction, biopolitics, and representations of the female body.
- Subjects
CHILDREN of Men (Film); CUARON, Alfonso, 1961-; IRONY in motion pictures; DEMOCRACY; MOTHERS in motion pictures; BIOPOLITICS (Sociobiology)
- Publication
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 2014, Vol 35, Issue 1, p160
- ISSN
0160-9009
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism
- DOI
10.5250/fronjwomestud.35.1.0160