Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Kaplan, E. Ann

Publication

• New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

xix, 195 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Dystopian films > History and criticism
• Climatic changes in motion pictures
• Psychic trauma in motion pictures
• Future, The, in motion pictures
• Dystopian films

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-185), filmography (pages 187-188) and index.

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.

Call Number

MFL 16-1328

ISBN

• 9780813564005
• 081356400X
• 9780813563992
• 0813563992
• 9780813564012 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780813573564 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015004940

OCLC

905222107

Author

Kaplan, E. Ann, author.

Title

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

Publisher

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-185), filmography (pages 187-188) and index.

Research Call Number

MFL 16-1328