Clint Jones, Apocalyptic Ecology in the Graphic Novel: Life and the Environment after Societal Collapse

This could be a depressing reading because of its topic and the conclusions it reaches, but it is also a well-written, enlightening and useful book about the popular representations of apocalyptic ecology in some graphic novels and more generally, in popular culture. The study focuses more on the c...

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Publicado en:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/belphegor,
Autor principal: Reyns-Chikuma, Chris
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Publicado: Belphégor 2020
Acceso en línea:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumario:This could be a depressing reading because of its topic and the conclusions it reaches, but it is also a well-written, enlightening and useful book about the popular representations of apocalyptic ecology in some graphic novels and more generally, in popular culture. The study focuses more on the content than on the specificity of the “comics.” For comics aca-fans, this perspective could disappoint, but it is nonetheless necessary in order to understand that comics in themselves are not the ...