Anthropocide: An Essay in Green Cultural Criminology (1) (Routledge Studies in Crime, Culture and Media)

Synopsis

Through an examination of Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men, this book demonstrates the ability of cinematic fictions, and other complex narrative fictions, to contribute to meeting the climate challenge by shaping the desires of audiences. What if there was a single feature film that showed us everything we need to know about climate catastrophe culture? What if that same film also made the philosophies of Slavoj Žižek, Mark Fisher, Francis Fukuyama, and Fredric Jameson accessible? Identifying the climate challenge as a cultural challenge, this book provides an unprecedented criminological analysis of both Children of Men and Fisher’s oeuvre from 1998 to 2022 and demonstrates the capacity of cinematic narratives to shape climate catastrophe culture. Seeking to be part of the solution to the climate challenge, it is the first criminological study to link the capacity of cinematic fictions to shape desire to solutions to the climate crisis. It is also one of the most detailed and most rigorous criminological case studies of a cinematic work to date.Anthropocide: An Essay in Green Cultural Criminology will be of great interest to students and scholars of green criminology, cultural criminology, narrative criminology, film theory, philosophy of film, and ecocriticism.

Copyright:

2025

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Publisher Quality

Book Size:

118 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781040338537

Related ISBNs:

9781032934242, 9781003565826, 9781040338513

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Date of Addition:

01/17/25

Copyrighted By:

Rafe McGregor. The right of Rafe McGregor to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Social Studies, Earth Sciences, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics

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