Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Oxford Literary Review

Publication Date

7-1-2016

Abstract

The last several decades have witnessed a drastic increase in ecological writing, but also a substantial lack in regards to the discussion of human population control. This article argues that the deficiency has been reproduced within several recent examples of eco-cinema, Snowpiercer and Mad Max: Fury Road. Despite strong conservationist themes and narratives encouraging social revolution, the films encounter similar theoretical difficulties, and enact similar resulting absences, within their representational fields. As a consequence, the environmental topics are filtered through an anthropocentric lens that generates a set of paradoxes regarding human consumption, sacrifice and the visualisation of future sustainable states.

Volume

38

Issue

1

First Page

47

Last Page

65

DOI

10.3366/olr.2016.0179

ISSN

03051498

E-ISSN

17571634

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