Annamária Hódosy: CLIMATE MONSTERS - Ecocriticism and Popular Film 2.
Release date: 15 February 2024.
Published by the Tiszatáj Foundation
Edited by Ákos Tóth
Cover graphics: Kitti Farkas
Cover typography: Babett Farkas
The volume was supported by:
National Cultural Fund (NKA) - Hungary
© Annamária Hódosy, 2023.
MTMT Database: Climate Monsters
Tiszatáj könyvek - Szeged (2023)
Responsible publisher: Róbert Hász
Volume plan: Gábor Annus
Printing: Innovariant Nyomdaipari Kft.
Responsible manager: György Drágán
Format: FR/5 (~A5), softcover book
ISBN 978-615-5618-43-7
(ISBN: 9786155618437)
ISSN 1417 314 X
INTRODUCTION TO ECOTERATOLOGY | 7 | SHAPE-SHIFTING IDEAS OF NATURE (The evolution of werewolf and wendigo films) | 55 |
THE ECOGOTHIC VAMPIRE (From ecophobia to anti-capitalism in vampire films) | 105 | ZOMBICENE (Decomposing society and solidarity economy) | 153 |
MUTATION AS METAPHOR (Recycling mythologies) | 203 | TOXIC AVENGERS (Waste management in movies and trash films especially) | 259 |
THE SUPERHEROES OF THE CAPITALOECENE (Ecopolitics in the Marvel universe) | 301 | VEGANSTRUCTION, OR TALKING PLANTS (Fitosemiotic exit) | 345 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 397 | FILMOGRAPHY | 427 |
- Detailed presentation of the chapters -
In the following you can read a summary and some citations from each Chapter of the book, from which you can see what it is about.
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Climate Monsters: Chapter 1. - INTRODUCTION
Over the past two decades, countless collections of essays have dealt with the subject of horror and monsters, and serious critical monographs focusing on the so-called “eco-horror” have appeared on the market at about the very time when it became generally accepted that the Holocene had ended and that we were now living in the Anthropocene.
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Climate Monsters: Chapter 2 - SHAPE-SHIFTING IDEAS OF NATURE
The chapter shows how the werewolf has been transformed from a symbol of the shameful animal aspects of human existence to an icon of peaceful coexistence with nature and sustainability.
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Climate Monsters: Chapter 3 - THE ECOGOTHIC VAMPIRE
Like shapeshifters, vampires can also carry ecological messages: they represent the exploitation of natural resources, while in Twilight they have become sympathetic characters precisely because they feel guilty and try to do something about it.
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Climate Monsters: Chapter 4 - ZOMBICENE
In the ‘typical’ contemporary zombie narrative, the repulsive undead represent the most underprivileged sections of society; they are associated with those excluded from the system of care, and sometimes the zombie plague is even perceived as the threat of ‘migration’.
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Climate Monsters: Chapter 5 - MUTATION AS METAPHOR
One of the ways in which modern monsters are created is through mutation, which in the past was often presented as a consequence of chemical contamination, but is now increasingly seen as a side-effect of infection, or the result of some kind of biotechnological intervention to overcome the biological limits of human existence.
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Climate Monsters: Chapter 6 - TOXIC AVENGERS
The chapter examines films the monsters of which in some way represent the ecological problems posed by the accumulation of trash and inappropriate waste management.
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Climate Monsters: Chapter 7 - THE SUPERHEROES OF THE CAPITALOECENE
The problem of the climate crisis was introduced into the Marvel’s superhero universe rather unexpectedly with the appearance of Thanos in 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War, who threatens to halve the population of the universe for ecopolitical purposes.
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Climate Monsters: Chapter 8 - VEGANSTRUCTION, OR TALKING PLANTS
The chapter analyses recent plant-themed films, in which the vegetal nation shows a curious ability to communicate.
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