Climate trauma : foreseeing the future in dystopian film and fiction /

Examining a variety of films that imagine a catastrophic future, from Children of Men to The Book of Eli, E. Ann Kaplan considers how they have exacerbated our sense of impending dread, triggering what she terms "Pretraumatic Stress Disorder." But Climate Trauma also explores ways these fi...

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Hlavní autor: Kaplan, E. Ann (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press [2016]
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt19cc21n
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Shrnutí:Examining a variety of films that imagine a catastrophic future, from Children of Men to The Book of Eli, E. Ann Kaplan considers how they have exacerbated our sense of impending dread, triggering what she terms "Pretraumatic Stress Disorder." But Climate Trauma also explores ways these films might help us productively engage with our anxieties about climate change, giving us a prophetic glimpse of the terrifying future selves we might still work to avoid becoming.
Fyzický popis:1 online resource (xix, 195 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-185), filmography (pages 187-189) and index.
ISBN:9780813564012
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