Michael W. Pesses

Ecomobilities

Driving the Anthropocene in Popular Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

Ecomobilities examines the American cultural attachment to automobility. By analyzing the role of machines and transportation in apocalyptic films, Michael W. Pesses reveals the ideological connections between automobiles, the environment, and the end of the world.

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Produktdetails

• Environment and Society
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9781498598194
• ISBN-10: 1498598196
• Artikelnr.: 62222822

Autorenporträt

By Michael W. Pesses

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Driving the Anthropocene
Chapter 1: Method
Chapter 2: "So Shiny So Chrome": Images and Ideology of Humans, Machines,
and the Earth
in George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road
Chapter 3: Machines Precede the Climate: The Technological Fix
Chapter 4: Zombies and the Horror of Not Having a Car: Apocalyptic Stories
as
Ecomobilities
Chapter 5: "I Hope You Have a Big Trunk 'Cause I'm Putting My Bike in It":
Alternative
Transportation as a Reinforcement of Capitalism