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Climate trauma foreseeing the future in dystopian film and fiction

Title
Climate trauma [electronic resource] : foreseeing the future in dystopian film and fiction / E. Ann Kaplan.
Author
Kaplan, E. Ann.
Publication
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]

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Description
1 online resource (xix, 195 pages) : illustrations.
Uniform Title
Climate trauma (Online)
Alternative Title
Climate trauma (Online)
Subject
  • Dystopian films > History and criticism
  • Climatic changes in motion pictures
  • Psychic trauma in motion pictures
  • Future, The, in motion pictures
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-185) and index.
  • Includes filmography: 187-188.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2015004940
OCLC
ssj0001592780
Author
Kaplan, E. Ann.
Title
Climate trauma [electronic resource] : foreseeing the future in dystopian film and fiction / E. Ann Kaplan.
Imprint
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-185) and index.
Includes filmography: 187-188.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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