Breves reflexiones sobre las imágenes del miedo al fin del mundo: el caso de las pandemias en la pantalla

Abstract

This paper presents a couple of considerations about the doomsday’s images, emphasizing the case of the productions in the screen about the pandemics in the world. The paper tries to prove that these images have become popular during the past years because of the mediated fear for the advent of the end of the mankind on account of the actuation of this species in the world. They are recognized other reasons based in the religious apocalyptic thought that put two dichotomous concepts in fight: hope and the fear of death. Finalizing the discussion three specific images are analyzed: chaos for a virus, biological warfare and the zombie.