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

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

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2023/10 | Pubblicato 06 Febbraio 2024 | Lingua en

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