Ecomobilities - Driving the Anthropocene in Popular Cinema

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.

List of contents

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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael W. Pesses
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781498598194
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9819-4
• No. of pages: 124
• Series: Environment and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Society & culture: general, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Science Fiction & Fantasy, environmental science, engineering & technology, Science / Environmental Science, Impact of science and technology on society, Society and culture: general, Film: styles & genres, Film: styles and genres, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Performing arts genres: Science fiction, fantasy and horror