In Janice Pariat’s latest novel, Shai’s story begins with a declaration — “to go back to where I came from — the wettest place on Earth”. No genre switch, this Works like Pariat’s, Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain, and Kartiki Gonsalves’s film The Elephant Whisperers are constructing climate realities where the environment exists as a backdrop, a protagonist, but also …
The famous Cinerama Dome movie theater in Hollywood, closed since March 2020 but expected to reopen eventually, is one of the places you could have gone to see films that ignore climate change. “Telling climate stories is not just good for the planet, it is in the best interest of an industry that seeks to engage audiences through authentic characters …
The climate films shaping society Marvel/Walt Disney Black Panther shows a visionary landscape of Wakanda: an anticolonial society powered by clean energy We need a subtler, more varied portrayal of climate change in film than just climate disaster blockbusters, says Becca Warner In a fictional hospital in Seattle, surgeons are sweating through their scrub caps as a heatwave descends on …
