Climate Trauma : Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Fiction

Name: Climate Trauma : Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Fiction
Brand: Rutgers University Press

Rutgers University Press

Climate TraumaForeseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Fiction\nAuthor(s): E. Ann Kaplan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9780813563992, 978-0813563992\nSynopsis\nEach 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 dj vu, as though we have already seen the sad outcome to this story.\n 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, ren.