%0 Journal Article %T Representaciones de la modernidad en el cine futurista %A Vizcarra %A Fernando %J Comunicaci¨®n y sociedad %D 2012 %I Universidad de Guadalajara %X this essay purports a typology of futurist representations made in films, using various approaches to modernity addressed by both the social sciences and the humanities. the text remit is laid out in three sections: the first describes the historical processes of modernity; the second discusses the cognitive mediations of futurist cinema and the third addresses some of the attributes regarding contemporary aesthetics of science-fiction. %K futuristic film %K cyborgs %K modernity %K post-modernity %K social representations. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0188-252X2012000100004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en