Grotesque Anthropocene
Disfigured Environments Across Media
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Beschreibung
This open access book explores the excesses, distortions and perverse effects that emerge when art and popular culture refuse reverence for nostalgic views on nature. Developing Phoebe Wagner's pioneering concept of the environmental grotesque, the book's authors argue that the problem is not ignorance of the crisis but rather poverty in our imaginative responses. Grotesque Anthropocene thus offers a needed rupture of our current ecological sensibilities, attending to the productive ambiguities of works across media, from art and literature to film and television.
Erik Erlanson is associate senior lecturer at the Department of Film and Literature at Linnaeus University and a member of the Linnaeus Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies.
Nicolai Skiveren is a postdoctoral research fellow at the New Zealand Centre for Human Animal Studies (NZCHAS) at Canterbury University, New Zealand.
Jacob Wamberg is an independent scholar and former professor of art history at Aarhus University.
This open access book explores the excesses, distortions and perverse effects that emerge when art and popular culture refuse reverence for nostalgic views on nature. Developing Phoebe Wagner's pioneering concept of the environmental grotesque, the book's authors argue that the problem is not ignorance of the crisis but rather poverty in our imaginative responses. Grotesque Anthropocene thus offers a needed rupture of our current ecological sensibilities, attending to the productive ambiguities of works across media, from art and literature to film and television.
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Offers a theoretical framework for mediations of the blurred boundary between humans and nature, body and environment Analyses whether art and media is capable of giving form to the ecological crisis Revives Bakhtin's concept of the grotesque and places it in the context of contemporary environmental thought
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Erik Erlanson
Themen in »Grotesque Anthropocene«
Open Access The Grotesque Ecocriticism Ecomedia Art History Environmental Humanities Grotesque Affects Environmental Aesthetics Representations of the Anthropocene