Outputs (3)

The Anthropocene unconscious: Climate anxieties in suburban SF (2023)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2023). The Anthropocene unconscious: Climate anxieties in suburban SF. Science Fiction Film and Television, 16(3), 251–275. https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2023.15

If the Anthropocene is the unconscious of the art, literature, and media of our time, then sf films that are not overtly about climate change will nonetheless express Anthropocenic concerns. In Marjorie Prime (2017), an intense inward focus on the do... Read More about The Anthropocene unconscious: Climate anxieties in suburban SF.

Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods, Calamity theory: Three critiques of existential risk (2023)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2023). Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods, Calamity theory: Three critiques of existential risk. American Literary History, 35(2), 1107-1110. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad069

We live in perilous times. Atmospheric CO2 levels continue to rise, and with them global temperatures. Business-as-usual immiserates and impoverishes us all, depleting soil and water, melting glaciers and ice caps, acidifying oceans, deforesting, des... Read More about Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods, Calamity theory: Three critiques of existential risk.

Cli-fi cinema (2023)
Book 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). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197557723.013.5

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... Read More about Cli-fi cinema.