Climate trauma : foreseeing the future in dystopian film and fiction / E. Ann Kaplan.

Author/creator Kaplan, E. Ann author.
Format Book
PublicationNew Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
Copyright Date©2016
Descriptionxix, 195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 173-185), filmography (pages 187-188) and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2015004940
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