Intermedial Ecocriticism

Jørgen Bruhn is professor of comparative literature at Linnaeus University.Niklas Salmose is professor of English literature at Linnaeus University.

All too often overlooked in the reports on recent alarms about climate change is more thoughtful attention to how these alarms get dispersed through scientific papers, news reports, fictional stories, films, graphic novels, and videogames. Arguing that different media carry the potential to engage audiences in vitally different ways, Jørgen Bruhn and Niklas Salmose present a powerful case for giving experts in media and intermediality a seat at the table of Environmental Humanities. Communication scholars, media analysts, and other humanists tired of standing restlessly on the sidelines as the world burns will welcome the results of their research and their invitation to consider new ways of understanding and acting on the latest reports on the climate crisis, and reports yet to come.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Intermedial StudiesChapter 2: Intermedial EcocriticismChapter 3: From Climate Science to Agency?Chapter 4: Between Raw Data, or Looking ‘Out of your Window’; Mediating Uncertainties of Climate Change ScienceChapter 5: Future Food CulturesChapter 6: Roads to Ecological AgencyAfterwordAppendixBibliography