Climate Trauma : : Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Fiction / / E. Ann Kaplan.
Each month brings new scientific findings that demonstrate the ways in which human activities, from resource extraction to carbon emissions, are doing unprecedented, perhaps irreparable damage to our world. As we hear these climate change reports and their predictions for the future of Earth, many o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PROLOGUE: CLIMATE TRAUMA AND HURRICANE SANDY
- Introduction: Pretrauma Imaginaries: Theoretical Frames
- 1. Trauma Studies Moving Forward: Genre and Pretrauma Cinema
- 2. Pretrauma Climate Scenarios: Take Shelter, The Happening, and The Road
- 3. Pretrauma Political Thrillers: Children of Men-with Reference to Soylent Green and The Handmaid's Tale
- 4. Memory and Future Selves in Pretrauma Fantasies: The Road and The Book of Eli
- 5. Microcosm: Politics and the Body in Distress in Blindness and The Book of Eli
- 6. Getting Real: Traumatic Climate Documentaries Into Eternity and Manufactured Landscapes
- Afterword: Humans and Eco-( or Is It Sui-?) Cide
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index
- About the Author