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Ecomobilities : driving the anthropocene in popular cinema
- Title
- Ecomobilities : driving the anthropocene in popular cinema / Michael W. Pesses.
- Author
- Pesses, Michael W.
- Publication
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]
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Details
- Description
- vii, 115 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Ecomobilities examines the American cultural attachment to automobility. By analyzing the role of machines and transportation in apocalyptic films, Michael W. Pesses reveals the ideological connections between automobiles, the environment, and the end of the world"--
- Series Statement
- Environment and society
- Uniform Title
- Environment and society.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Driving the anthropocene -- 1. Method -- 2. "So shiny so chrome": images and ideology of humans, machines, and the earth in George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road -- 3. Machines precede the climate: the technological fix -- 4. Zombies and the horror of not having a car: apocalyptic stories as ecomobilities -- 5. "I hope you have a big trunk 'cause I'm putting my bike in it": alternative transportation as a reinforcement of capitalism -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- MFL 22-249
- ISBN
- 9781498598194
- 1498598196
- LCCN
- 2021035580
- OCLC
- 1258655602
- Author
- Pesses, Michael W., author.
- Title
- Ecomobilities : driving the anthropocene in popular cinema / Michael W. Pesses.
- Publisher
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Environment and societyEnvironment and society.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Pesses, Michael W. Ecomobilties Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021] 9781498598200 (DLC) 2021035581
- Research Call Number
- MFL 22-249