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Cli-fi cinema

Bould, Mark

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Mark Bould Mark.Bould@uwe.ac.uk
Professor in Film and Literature



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J. P. Telotte
Editor

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
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10605938
Publisher URL https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/45763/chapter-abstract/398729056?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=true
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This is the authors accepted version of the chapter ‘Bould, M. (2023). Cli-fi cinema. In J. P. Telotte (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas (52-70). Oxford University Press (OUP)’ 2023.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197557723.013.5

The final published version is available here: https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/45763/chapter-abstract/398729056?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=true


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This is the authors accepted version of the chapter ‘Bould, M. (2023). Cli-fi cinema. In J. P. Telotte (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas (52-70). Oxford University Press (OUP)’ 2023.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197557723.013.5

The final published version is available here: https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/45763/chapter-abstract/398729056?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=true





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