I’ve recently published another review for Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media, an Irish publication connected with University College Cork, looking at a collection exploring various aspects of the Anthropocene through the lens of Gothic media. Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene features 16 essays that engage with anthropogenic climate change, monsters, interspecies relations, and a host of other themes and ideas. The collection includes some thought-provoking contributions, as well as some lazy science skepticism, smug academic snootiness, and a lot of self-satisfied groupthink.
You can read my article on Alphaville’s website here: https://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue27/HTML/ReviewFranklin.html
Or you can read a pdf (with some easier-on-the-eye formatting) here: https://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue27/ReviewFranklin.pdf
The book, edited by Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund, and Johan Höglund, is published by University of Minnesota Press (ISBN 978-1-5179-1123-2).
Suggested Citation:
Franklin, David. “Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene, edited by Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund, and Johan Höglund.” Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 27, 2024, pp. 323–329. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.27.35
