Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene

by Jennifer Fay

Book Overview

In recent years, environmental and human rights advocates have suggested that we have entered the first new geological epoch since the end of the ice age: the Anthropocene. In this new epoch, humans have come to reshape unwittingly both the climate and natural world; humankind has caused mass extinctions of plant and animal species, polluted the oceans, and irreversibly altered the atmosphere. Ironically, our efforts to make the planet more hospitable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190696788
• ISBN13: 9780190696788
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"