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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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press
[2016]
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt19cc21n |
| Riassunto: | 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. |
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| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xix, 195 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-185), filmography (pages 187-189) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813564012 0813564018 9780813573564 0813573564 9780813564005 081356400X 9780813563992 0813563992 |