| dc.contributor.author | Winkelman, Elizabeth | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-13T22:31:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-13T22:31:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-04-11 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1808/34849 | |
| dc.description | Submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for departmental honors. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | In May of 2004, director Roland Emmerich released his blockbuster film The Day After Tomorrow. Since its release, the film has been noted as being an important piece of Cli-Fi, Climate Fiction. This thesis argues that the film has been given these distinctions of importance to Cli-Fi and the climate change movement is due to the political and social context it was released in as a traumatized post-9/11 society under the Bush Administration’s environmental policies. This thesis further argues that The Day After Tomorrow’s success stems from its ability to harness the emotions from this specific traumatized audience and has since been used by members of the climate change movement to garner public action. | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Department of History, University of Kansas | en_US |
| dc.rights | Copyright 2023 Elizabeth Winkelman | en_US |
| dc.title | The Day After Tomorrow: Climate Change & The Today of Science, Film, & Activism | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| kusw.oanotes | 2023/11/13: Added to KUSW at the request of the department. The ETD release form has been uploaded to the KUSW record as a license bitstream. | en_US |
| dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |
