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

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

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