Inhospitable World

While standard ecological criticism attends to the environmental crisis as an unravelling of our natural state, this book looks to films and media theory to consider how they reflect upon the creation and destruction of artificial , human environments. What are the implications of ecological inhospitality? And what role might cinema and media theory play in challenging our presumed right to occupy and populate the world? As an art form, cinema enjoys a unique relationship to the material, elemental world it captures and produces. Through it, we may appreciate the ambitions to design an un-homely planet that may no longer accommodate us.