Cli-fi cinema

Bould, Mark

Abstract

This chapter outlines the relationship between science fiction (sf) and climate fiction, both literary and cinematic, and urges a broader understanding of what it means to tell stories about anthropogenic climate destabilization. It considers a wide range of cli-fi movies in relation to several dominant narrative trends-strategic realism, techno-utopianism, and apocalyptic environmentalism-and concludes by demonstrating how a film such as Arrival (2017) might be read as an unconscious treatment of climate change concerns.

• Online Publication Date: Mar 22, 2023
• Publication Date: Mar 22, 2023
• Deposit Date: May 10, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 23, 2025
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
• Pages: 52-70
• Series Title: Oxford Handbooks
• Book Title: The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas
• Chapter Number: 4
• ISBN: 9780197557723
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197557723.013.5
• Keywords: climate, dystopia, politics, apocalypse, global warming, weather, ecology
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