Climate trauma : foreseeing the future in dystopian film and fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kaplan, E. Ann
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
Subjects:	Dystopian films > History and criticism. Climatic changes in motion pictures. Psychic trauma in motion pictures. Future, The, in motion pictures.

Table of 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.