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

open access | peer reviewed
    edited by
  • Roberta Maierhofer - University of Graz, Austria
  • Michael Fuchs - University of Innsbruck, Austria - email
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 Mahasweta Devi • Ecogothic • Appalachia • Environmental Justice • Climate crisis in film • The Hungry Tide • Trauma • Intersectionality • Indigenous Literature • Allegorical satire • Gun Island • Biosemiotics • Audience engagement • Climate Change Fiction • Popular culture • New materialism • Climate crisis communication • Climate change communication • Don’t Look Up • Coal • Multiscalar temporalities • Ethicology • Intergenerational Gap • Digital games • Amitav Ghosh • Dystopia • Ecocriticism • Mining • Ecohorror • Extraction • Comics • Climate change • Sustainability

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

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