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ARTEAGA-BOTELLO, Nelson. Latin America and the Apocalypse: Visual Icons in Blade Runner and Elysium. LiminaR [online]. 2015, vol.13, n.2, pp.13-26. ISSN 2007-8900.

This paper highlights how dystopias projected filmic forms of domination and a set of social tensions in contemporary societies. Blade Runner and Elysium movies are analyzed using four iconographic elements that share: Los Angeles city, abandonment of land by its elites, a multicultural social context, and the presence of social surveillance technologies. The paper explore how these films construct an idea of Latin American, who gives meaning to the futuristic apocalyptic scenarios that draw, while projecting the apocalyptic scenario that Latin America lives today.

Palavras-chave : icons; fiction; dystopias; films.