Climate Trauma : Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Fiction /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kaplan, E. Ann (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
Future, The, in motion pictures.
Dystopian films.
Climatic changes in motion pictures.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Critical Theory.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Futur au cinema.
Traumatisme psychique au cinema.
Climat > Changements, au cinema.
Films dystopiques > Histoire et critique.
Dystopian films > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: Climate trauma and Hurricane Sandy
  • Introduction: Pretrauma imaginaries: theoretical frames
  • Trauma studies moving forward: genre and pretrauma cinema
  • Pretrauma climate scenarios: Take shelter, The happening, and The road
  • Pretrauma political thrillers: Children of men-with reference to Soylent green and The handmaid's tale
  • Memory and future selves in pretrauma fantasies: The road and The Book of Eli
  • Microcosm: politics and the body in distress in blindness and The Book of Eli
  • Getting real: traumatic climate documentaries: into eternity and manufactured landscapes
  • Afterword: humans and eco- (or is it sui-?) cide
  • Filmography.

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