This course examines how film and media platforms represent, amplify, provide relief, and otherwise intervene into disasters throughout history. By introducing students to key concepts in environmental justice and media studies, the course critically contests the framing of natural disasters to attune students to the intertwining of the ecosphere with social, political, and technological developments. We will address everything from the slow crises of glacial melt and plastic pollution to fast-moving fires, floods, pandemics, and nuclear disaster.
