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

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

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