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. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-185), filmography (pages 187-188) and index. |
Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
LCCN | 2015004940 |
ISBN | 9780813564005 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 081356400X (hardcover : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 9780813563992 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 0813563992 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
ISBN | (e-book (web pdf)) |
ISBN | (e-book (epub)) |