Living, Again
Population and Paradox in Recent Cinema
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11896355 |
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| Authors | Keith Clavin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-65 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Oxford Literary Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-1498 • E-ISSN: 1757-1634 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/olr.2016.0179 |
| OpenAlex | W2422636843 |
| Language | EN |
The last several decades have witnessed a drastic increase in ecological writing, but also a substantial lack in regards to the discussion of human population control. This article argues that the deficiency has been reproduced within several recent examples of eco-cinema, Snowpiercer and Mad Max: Fury Road. Despite strong conservationist themes and narratives encouraging social revolution, the films encounter similar theoretical difficulties, and enact similar resulting absences, within their representational fields. As a consequence, the environmental topics are filtered through an anthropocentric lens that generates a set of paradoxes regarding human consumption, sacrifice and the visualisation of future sustainable states
Aesthetics · Anthropocentrism · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Consumption (sociology · Environmental ethics · Geography · Literature · Movie theater · Narrative · Population · Population control · Sacrifice · Set (abstract data type · Social science · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Demography · History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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