Climate Trauma
Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Fiction
Author: E. Ann Kaplan
ISBN: 9780813563992
Each month brings new scientific findings that demonstrate the ways in which human activities, from resource extraction to carbon emissions, are doing unprecedented, perhaps irreparable damage to our world. As we hear these climate change reports and their predictions for the future of Earth, many of us feel a sickening sense of d�j� vu, as though we have already seen the sad outcome to this story.  Drawing from recent scholarship that analyzes climate change as a form of "slow violence" that humans are inflicting on the environment, Climate Trauma theorizes that such violence is accompanied by its own psychological condition, what its author terms "Pretraumatic Stress Disorder." Examining a variety of films that imagine a dystopian future, renowned media scholar E. Ann Kaplan considers how the increasing ubiquity of these works has exacerbated our sense of impending dread. But she also explores ways these films might help us productively engage with our anxieties, giving us a se
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publish Date: 2015
Subjects: Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism, Philosophy / Movements / Critical Theory, Psychology / Psychopathology / Anxieties & Phobias
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