198 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Illuminating the impacts of environmental disasters and climate crises globally, this book examines the experiences of teens grappling with eco-disasters and issues in films of the twenty-first century. With an emphasis on teen activism, international settings and filmmakers, and marginalized perspectives, this book showcases teens on film that are struggling with present and future everyday... Read more

Introduction: An Eco-Teen Film?  Part I Teen Bodies, Eco-Trauma, and Eco-Activism  1. “Why Should I Study for a Future I Won’t Have?”: Activism and Eco-Trauma in Teen Climate Change Films  2. Turning Teens into Advocates: Crip Camp and the Real Meaning of Sustainability  Part II Coming of Age in Post-Colonial Environments: Young Adult Eco-Struggles for Hope  3. Young Adult Postcolonial Ecologies in Zombi Child and Atlantics  4. “You Don’t F**k with the Girls from Pang”: Indigenous Science Fiction Meets YA Eco-Woman Power  Part III Post-Colonial Teen War Films  5. When Teen Soldiers Tell their Own Environmental Narratives: The Case of War Witch and Beasts of No Nation  6. War as a Window into Nature in Monos  Part IV Teens, Tweens, Viruses, and Spores: Finding Hope in/with the More-than-Human  7. Pangolin Love: South Park’s Covid-19 Specials and the Power of Satire  8. Teen Identity Formation, Interdependence, and the Vegetal: Turning Monstrous Plants into Hope  Conclusion: Climate Justice Film on the Front Lines

Biography

Robin L. Murray is Professor Emeritus of English (Eastern Illinois University, United States) and continues to teach film courses.

Joseph K. Heumann is Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies (Eastern Illinois University, United States) and continues to teach film courses.