"Ecomobilities examines the American cultural attachment to automobility. By analyzing the role of machines and transportation in apocalyptic films, Michael W. Pesses reveals the ideological connections between automobiles, the environment, and the end of the world"--.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
  • It’s Not Looking Good . . .
  • What’s in a Name? Troubling the Anthropocene
  • Troubling Ideology
  • Automobility, American, and Otherwise
  • Plan of the Present Work
  • Notes
• Chapter 1: Method
  • Expanding the Anthropocene’s Archive
  • Imagining the End of the World
  • Notes
• Chapter 2: “So Shiny So Chrome”: Images and Ideology of Humans, Machines, and the Earth in George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Ignition: Meeting Max
  • Idling: Ideologies of automobility
  • Revving: Hybrid Humans and Machines
  • Shifting into 4L: Sport Utility Vehicles, Distancing, and Capitalism
  • Throttle Down: Conclusions
  • Notes
• Chapter 3: Machines Precede the Climate: The Technological Fix
  • The Climate is Hyperreal
  • Punching and Kicking Climate Change: Pacific Rim
  • Starting Fresh: I Am Mother
  • “Babies Taste the Best”: Snowpiercer
  • These Aren’t the Droids You’re Looking For
  • Notes
• Chapter 4: Zombies and the Horror of Not Having a Car: Apocalyptic Stories as Ecomobilities
  • You Can’t Drive Away from Germs: Horror, Pandemics, and Assemblages in the Apocalypse
  • Driving Away from Zombies
  • Men Will Be Men: How It Ends
  • Can We Outdrive the Horror?
  • Notes
• Chapter 5: “I Hope You Have a Big Trunk ‘Cause I’m Putting My Bike in It”: Alternative Transportation as a Reinforcement of Capitalism
  • The Rider-Bike Assemblage: Symbolic Human-Powered Mobilities
  • Reclaiming Magic in a Van: Pixar’s Onward
  • Resisting the Magic of the Car
  • Notes
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author