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1 online resource (xxix, 285 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
Climate change in popular culture : a warming world in the American imagination is the first study that includes analyses of both fiction and popular nonfiction works devoted to climate change. In addition, the book examines a number of classic works from the perspective of the growing field of climate change literature and includes a brief history of climate change science as well basic scientific definitions, all intended for general readers.The text provides an introduction to the science, politics, and economics of climate change. It also includes both historical overviews and potential probable futures projected by leading climate scientists and environmental writers. In addition, the text looks at how such creative writers and directors as Margaret Atwood, John Steinbeck, Paulo Bacigalupi, Kim Stanley Robinson, T. C. Boyle, Michael Crichton, and Octavia Butler, among others, have used the disasters caused by climate change in their work. |
Contents |
Introduction: You Don't Need a Weatherman-Climate Change and Popular Culture -- Essential Climate Change Terms -- A-Z Entries -- After the Flood -- A.I. Artificial Intelligence -- Always North -- American War -- Avatar -- Barkskins -- Blackfish City -- Blade Runner -- Bridge 108 -- Burning World, The -- Carbon Diaries 2015, The -- Chesapeake Requiem -- Children of Men, The -- Children's Bible, A -- Chinatown -- City Where We Once Lived, The -- Clade -- Colony, The -- Crystal World, The -- Day after Tomorrow, The -- Disaster's Children -- Drowned World, The -- Dry -- Ecotopia -- Eden -- End of the Ocean, The -- Ever Winter -- Exodus -- Field Notes from a Catastrophe -- Fifty Degrees Below -- Firewalkers -- Flight Behavior -- Flood -- Forty Signs of Rain -- Friend of the Earth, A -- Future Home of the Living God -- Geostorm -- Gold Fame Citrus -- Grapes of Wrath, The -- Great Derangement, The -- Handmaid's Tale, The -- History of Bees, The -- History of What Comes Next, A -- How to Avoid a Climate Disaster -- Hunger Games, The -- Ice -- Inconvenient Truth, An -- Lamentations of Zeno, The -- Lathe of Heaven, The -- Lorax, The -- Lost City Raiders -- Mad Max Series, The -- MaddAddam -- Marrow Thieves, The -- Memory of Water -- Migrations -- Ministry for the Future, The -- Moon of the Crusted Snow -- New Wilderness, The -- New York 2140 -- Odds against Tomorrow -- Orleans -- Oryx and Crake -- Overstory, The -- Parable of the Sower -- Road, The -- Salvage the Bones -- Sea Change -- Sherwood Nation -- Ship Breaker -- Silent Spring -- Six Degrees -- Sixth Extinction, The -- Sixty Days and Counting -- Snowpiercer -- Solar -- South Pole Station -- Soylent Green -- State of Fear -- Storming the Wall -- Story of More, The -- This Changes Everything -- Wall, The -- WALL-E -- Water Farmer, The -- Water Knife, The -- Water Thief, The -- Waterworld -- Weather -- Wind from Nowhere, The -- Windup Girl, The -- Year of the Flood, The. |
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Subject |
Ecofiction -- History and criticism.
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Ecofiction. |
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Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Chronological Term |
21st century |
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Climatic changes in literature.
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Climatic changes in literature. |
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Climatic changes in motion pictures.
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Climatic changes in motion pictures. |
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Climatic changes -- Popular works.
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Climatic changes. |
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Popular works.
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Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Literary criticism.
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Film criticism.
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Film criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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Critiques cinématographiques.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Holte, James Craig. Climate change in popular culture : a warming world in the American imagination Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2022] 9781440878077 1440878072 (DLC) 2022008387 (OCoLC)1308409819 |
ISBN |
9781440878084 (electronic book) |
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1440878080 (electronic book) |
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9781440878077 (hardcover) |
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1440878072 (hardcover) |
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