Marc DiPaolo’s Fire and Snow engages with the burgeoning ‘cli-fi’ genre which speculates on climate change themes and corollary effects. Through close examination of such diverse works as Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games, Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, and “low-culture” films Snowpiercer and Mad Max: Fury Road, DiPaolo both argues in favor of non-partisan collective action against climate change and explores broader public engagement with environmental themes. Primarily a survey text, Fire and Snow nevertheless provides considered analysis of the relationship between authors, producers, and consumers in the dissemination of cli-fi messaging in popular culture.
Articles by Alisa M. Schreibman
Alisa Michelle Schreibman is an Adjunct Professor of Humanities at Rocky Mountain College of Art+Design and Front Range Community College. Her current research examines golems, dybbuks, and other Jewish monsters at the intersections of fairy tale, memory, and magical realism.