Michael W. Pesses

Ecomobilities (eBook, ePUB)

Driving the Anthropocene in Popular Cinema

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ecomobilities examines the ideological connections between automobiles, the environment, and the end of the world, focusing on the car's inseparability from modern life. Through popular films addressing both mobilities and environmental disasters, Ecomobilities reveals how American automobility has influenced responses to warming temperatures and shifting ecosystems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498598200
• Artikelnr.: 62736988

Autorenporträt

Michael W. Pesses is professor of geography at Antelope Valley College.

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