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Book SynopsisTrade Review"If you’ve been following the rising tide of discussion on climate change, perhaps you’ve noticed that Hollywood has also been beating a similar drum—for years. In
Climate Trauma author E. Ann Kaplan shows how movies as far back as the 1970s have depicted scenarios of future gloom tied to human neglect and mistreatment of our planet—and how dystopian films can still inspire us with hope for a better world." * Parade *
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Climate Trauma treats the subject of climate-specific pre-trauma in a thorough and interesting way." * Foreword Reviews *
"Proposing a powerful new analytic in the 'pretrauma' concept, Kaplan's fresh and insightful work goes directly to the heart of the matter: cinema's role in negotiating a dire circumstance we humans neglect at our peril." -- Janet Walker * University of California, Santa Barbara *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Prologue: Climate Trauma and Hurricane Sandy
Introduction: Pretrauma Imaginaries: Theoretical Frames
1. Trauma Studies Moving Forward: Genre and Pretrauma Cinema
2. Pretrauma Climate Scenarios:
Take Shelter, The Happening, and
The Road 3. Pretrauma Political Thrillers:
Children of Men (with reference to
Soylent Green and
The Handmaid’s Tale) 4. Memory and Future Selves in Pretrauma Fantasies:
The Road and
The Book of Eli 5. Microcosm: Politics and the Body in Distress in
Blindness and
The Book of Eli 6. “Getting Real”: Traumatic Climate Documentaries:
Into Eternity and
Manufactured Landscapes Afterword: Humans and Eco- (or is it Sui-?) Cide
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
