Climate trauma : foreseeing the future in dystopian film and fiction /
Kaplan, E. Ann,
Climate trauma : foreseeing the future in dystopian film and fiction / E. Ann Kaplan. - New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xix, 195 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographies 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 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.
9780813564012
Dystopian films--History and criticism.
Climatic changes in motion pictures.
Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
Future, The, in motion pictures.
Electronic Books.
PN1995 / .C556 2016
Climate trauma : foreseeing the future in dystopian film and fiction / E. Ann Kaplan. - New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xix, 195 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographies 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 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.
9780813564012
Dystopian films--History and criticism.
Climatic changes in motion pictures.
Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
Future, The, in motion pictures.
Electronic Books.
PN1995 / .C556 2016