{"id":7836,"date":"2014-09-18T15:59:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T20:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=7836"},"modified":"2014-09-18T15:59:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T20:59:43","slug":"apocalypse-mashup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2014\/09\/18\/apocalypse-mashup\/","title":{"rendered":"Apocalypse mashup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s theme in my &#8220;Environmental Literature, Arts, &amp; Media&#8221; class is apocalyptic rhetoric. (I&#8217;m loosely following Greg Garrard&#8217;s list of tropes in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ecocriticism-The-New-Critical-Idiom\/dp\/0415196922\">Ecocriticism<\/a><\/em>, but adding, amplifying, and amending to be more artistically inclusive.)<\/p>\n<p>Because it&#8217;s a fun topic (and deadly serious, too), I thought I&#8217;d post a few of the videos we&#8217;ve been watching and discussing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At the serious end, the trailer for Chris Jordan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwayfilm.com\/\">Midway<\/a> is gut-wrenching:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ozBE-ZPw18c?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marina Zurkow&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8k_jY7xCPYY\">Slurb<\/a> is great&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8k_jY7xCPYY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>as is the documentary in which she discusses making it:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wTJ367tQY0k?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent&#038;listType=playlist&#038;list=PLC-MvAJu5LtQuwgZNXfyDE5AAGje4eII6\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This EDF polar bears piece remains a personal favorite of mine:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HNUs89UIVjw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And at the hilarious end, this disaster films mashup is brilliant:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E2mjxJusNcY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent&#038;listType=playlist&#038;list=PLC-MvAJu5LtQuwgZNXfyDE5AAGje4eII6\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And while we&#8217;re at it, if you haven&#8217;t seen <a href=\"http:\/\/watchdisruption.com\/\">Disruption<\/a> yet &#8212; the video made in preparation for this weekend&#8217;s Peoples Climate March &#8212; watch it. The first few minutes are classic eco-apocalypse; the rest mostly talking heads with\u00a0some historical context. But it is very good.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ktgEzXZDtmc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XFLP-UddQcY&amp;index=16&amp;list=PLC-MvAJu5LtQuwgZNXfyDE5AAGje4eII6\">Ecomedia YouTube channel<\/a> for more. And send me others you know of (not only on the eco-apocalypse theme, of course).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s theme in my &#8220;Environmental Literature, Arts, &amp; Media&#8221; class is apocalyptic rhetoric. (I&#8217;m loosely following Greg Garrard&#8217;s list of tropes in Ecocriticism, but adding, amplifying, and amending to be more artistically inclusive.) Because it&#8217;s a fun topic (and deadly serious, too), I thought I&#8217;d post a few of the videos we&#8217;ve been watching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[689701,689354],"tags":[16837,123532,5710],"class_list":["post-7836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media_ecology","category-image_nation","tag-apocalypse","tag-eco-images","tag-global-warming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-22o","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13434,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2023\/12\/09\/angel-of-apocalyptic-history\/","url_meta":{"origin":7836,"position":0},"title":"Angel of Apocalyptic History","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"December 9, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"My talk at the recent \"Apocalyptic Anxieties\" conference, at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, is available for viewing at the SFU Institute for the Humanities YouTube page, or below. 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