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An invaluable resource for general readers investigating climate change, this book examines the impact of climate change on popular culture and analyzes how writers and directors treat the disasters caused by climate change in their novels and films.
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.
List of contents
Introduction: You Don't Need a Weatherman-Climate Change and Popular CultureEssential Climate Change TermsA-Z EntriesAfter the FloodA.I. Artificial IntelligenceAlways NorthAmerican WarAvatarBarkskinsBlackfish CityBlade RunnerBridge 108Burning World, TheCarbon Diaries 2015, TheChesapeake RequiemChildren of Men, TheChildren's Bible, AChinatownCity Where We Once Lived, TheCladeColony, TheCrystal World, TheDay after Tomorrow, TheDisaster's ChildrenDrowned World, TheDryEcotopiaEdenEnd of the Ocean, TheEver WinterExodusField Notes from a CatastropheFifty Degrees BelowFirewalkersFlight BehaviorFloodForty Signs of RainFriend of the Earth, AFuture Home of the Living GodGeostormGold Fame CitrusGrapes of Wrath, TheGreat Derangement, TheHandmaid's Tale, TheHistory of Bees, TheHistory of What Comes Next, AHow to Avoid a Climate DisasterHunger Games, TheIceInconvenient Truth, AnLamentations of Zeno, TheLathe of Heaven, TheLorax, TheLost City RaidersMad Max Series, The
MaddAddamMarrow Thieves, TheMemory of WaterMigrationsMinistry for the Future, TheMoon of the Crusted SnowNew Wilderness, TheNew York 2140Odds against TomorrowOrleansOryx and CrakeOverstory, TheParable of the SowerRoad, TheSalvage the BonesSea ChangeSherwood NationShip BreakerSilent SpringSix DegreesSixth Extinction, TheSixty Days and CountingSnowpiercerSolarSouth Pole StationSoylent GreenState of FearStorming the WallStory of More, TheThis Changes EverythingWall, TheWALL-EWater Farmer, TheWater Knife, TheWater Thief, TheWaterworldWeatherWind from Nowhere, TheWindup Girl, TheYear of the Flood, TheIndex
About the author
James Craig Holte is Emeritus Professor of English and Film Studies at East Carolina University, USA.
