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Fabulating Ecologies

Screening Caution, Citizenry, and the Machinic Apocalypse

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Fabulating Ecologies

Screening Caution, Citizenry, and the Machinic Apocalypse

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Fabulating Ecologies: Screening Caution, Citizenry, and the Machinic Apocalypse undertakes a comprehensive exploration into the world of eco-fabulations within cinematic narratives. The chapters navigate speculative and futuristic possibilities in films, ideating entangled existences within domains that transcend the human experience. With such a framework, the work provokes a reassessment of established paradigms around environment, techno-apocalypse, citizenship, and anthropocentrism, all within the context of a fluid and evolving posthuman thought in contemporary science fiction cinema. Many recent films and media forms associated with the science fiction genre have effectively exhibited premonitions about impending planetary threats, and the ones explored in this book are a small part of a larger lineage of films. This book recognizes such films as “cautionary” forms of media because they create an instinctive feeling of urgency. Cautionary cinema efficiently transmits narratives of foreboding, comprising the capacity to portray both fear and hope, through a combination of disruptive shock and empathetic resonance. The argument for machinocene being a logical supersedence to the Anthropocene is strengthened by the ubiquitous presence of heavy machinery and unrestrained technology in these ecologies that tilt us toward a calamitous vision of the future.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Ritwick Bhattacharjee
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Screening Caution: Elitism, Social Exclusion, and Machinic Ecologies
Chapter 2: Forest Ecology and the Apocalyptic Vision in Princess Mononoke and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Chapter 3: Desert Ecologies in Mad Max: Fury Road and Dune
Chapter 4: Alien Ecology in Annihilation
Chapter 5: Simulated Ecologies in Gamer and Ready Player One
Chapter 6: Posthuman Ecologies and Intelligent Life in Jung_E, After Yang, and Ex Machina
Chapter 7: Apocalyptic and Post-apocalyptic Ecologies: Exploring Children of Men, Don't Look Up, Blade Runner 2049, The Road, and Waterworld
Conclusion: Aberration, Apathy, Apocalypse
Bibliography
About the Author

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 14 May 2026
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 192
ISBN 9798216266662
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Series Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Anik Sarkar

Anik Sarkar teaches at Uttar Banga Maheshwari Coll…

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