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Between Fantasy and Horror: La nuée (2020) by Just Philippot as a Film about the Ecological Crisis of the Anthropocene

Contribution

This contribution deals with the contradictions of nature and agricultural economy in the contemporary moment of crisis in the Anthropocene. It is based on an analysis of the fantastic French film La nuée (The Swarm) by Just Philippot who reflects by this film also on the turning points from the preception of reality to obsession and from the uninjured body to the damaged body, or even from live to death resepctiveley from live instinct to death drive.

Febel, Gisela. 2024. Between Fantasy and Horror: La nuée (2020) by Just Philippot as a Film about the Ecological Crisis of the Anthropocene. In Brühne, Julia, Pádraic Wilson & Joaquín Orlando Valenzuela Celis (ed): Impending Crisis. Contemporary Fantastic Narratives between Language, Image and Sound, Baden-Baden, Rombach: 157-186.


ISBN: 978-3-98858-011-5

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