Climate trauma [electronic resource] :foreseeing the future in dystopian film and fiction / E. Ann Kaplan.
By: Kaplan, E. Ann.
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
Material type: BookPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813564012; 0813564018.Subject(s): Future, The, in motion pictures | Psychic trauma in motion pictures | Climatic changes in motion pictures | Dystopian films -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 791.43/615 Online resources: Full text available:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 fictions: 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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