It’s the End of World as We Know It (and the Hero Survives): Robert Geal and the Psychoanalysis of Disaster Cinema

In what wraps up our short run of film-centered episodes, we’re joined by Robert Geal, lecturer at University of Wolverhampton, UK to discuss his recent book Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis: Surviving the Environmental Apocalypse. We discuss the role that disaster cinema has on our psychological relationship to the environment, environmental disaster, and society’s (in)action towards climate change.

Robert’s Book: https://www.routledge.com/Ecological-Film-Theory-and-Psychoanalysis-Surviving-the-Environmental-Apocalypse/Geal/p/book/9780367373412

For more on Robert:

• Twitter: @RobertGeal
• https://wwwwolverhampton.academia.edu/RobertGeal

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• Twitter: @ASLE_EcoCast
• Jemma Deer: @Geowrites
• Brandon Galm: @BeGalm

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Episode recorded October 16, 2021.

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