This article engages with the representations and meanings of child figures within US films about environmentally induced displacement. At the intersection between film studies, childhood studies, and the emerging scholarship on climate mobilities (Boas et al., 2022), it explores the ways in which three contemporary apocalyptic films—The Road (2009), Take Shelter (2011), and Greenland (2020)— mediate the relationship between mobility and environmental collapse through child characters. It argues that the functions attached to the child in these films—those of seer, victim, and carrier of hope and futurity—work to depoliticize climate mobilities, obscuring the varied aspirations, sociopolitical factors, and power structures that shape mobility choices in the context of environmental threat. As imaginary projections of an upcoming climate collapse, these films provide fertile ground for an exploration of the cultural ideals underpinning the construction of child characters, and the influence these have in the articulation of climate mobilities.

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面对末日：气候变化和电影儿童

本文探讨了美国电影中关于环境引起的流离失所的儿童形象的表现和意义。在电影研究、儿童研究和新兴的气候流动性学术（Boas 等人，2022）之间的交叉点，它探讨了三部当代末日电影——《道路》（2009）、《避难所》（2011）和格陵兰岛（2020）——通过儿童角色调解流动性和环境崩溃之间的关系。它认为，这些电影中赋予儿童的功能——预言家、受害者以及希望和未来的承载者——致力于将气候流动性去政治化，掩盖了在背景下影响流动性选择的不同愿望、社会政治因素和权力结构。的环境威胁。作为对即将到来的气候崩溃的想象预测，这些电影为探索支撑儿童角色构建的文化理想以及这些理想在阐明气候流动性方面的影响提供了肥沃的土壤。