Climate trauma : foreseeing the future in dystopian film and fiction / E. Ann Kaplan.
| Author/creator | Kaplan, E. Ann author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016] |
| Copyright Date | ©2016 |
| Description | xix, 195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-185), filmography (pages 187-188) and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2015004940 |
| ISBN | 9780813564005 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 081356400X (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780813563992 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813563992 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (e-book (web pdf)) |
| ISBN | (e-book (epub)) |