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Ecomobilities - Driving the Anthropocene in Popular Cinema

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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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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


About the author

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

Summary

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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