Human Generations and the Environmental Crisis in Literature, Film, and Other Media

open access | peer reviewed
Abstract

The five contributions to this issue discuss how film, comics, video games, and literature approach various issues and phenomena of intergenerational significance in the face of looming environmental catastrophe. 

Keywords Intersectionality • Don’t Look Up • Comics • Ethicology • Ecohorror • Mahasweta Devi • Coal • Amitav Ghosh • Appalachia • Sustainability • Extraction • New materialism • Allegorical satire • Ecogothic • Climate Change Fiction • Audience engagement • Gun Island • Trauma • Biosemiotics • Climate change • Popular culture • Intergenerational Gap • Digital games • The Hungry Tide • Environmental Justice • Multiscalar temporalities • Ecocriticism • Mining • Climate crisis communication • Climate crisis in film • Indigenous Literature • Climate change communication • Dystopia

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2023/10 | Published Feb. 6, 2024 | Language en

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