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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: E. Ann KaplanPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.370kg ISBN: 9780813563992ISBN 10: 0813563992 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 04 December 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. 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 IndexReviewsProposing 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 (03/04/2015) """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 * ""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 *" 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 Climate Trauma treats the subject of climate-specific pre-trauma in a thorough and interesting way. --Foreword Reviews 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 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 Author InformationE. ANN KAPLAN is a distinguished professor of English and Cultural Analysis and Theory at Stony Brook University, where she also founded and directed the Humanities Institute. The past president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, she is also the author and editor of over a dozen books, including Trauma and Cinema and Trauma Culture (Rutgers University Press). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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