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

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

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