{"product_id":"9781496234988-who-would-you-kill-to-save-the-world","title":"Who Would You Kill to Save the World?","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClaire Colebrook examines how postapocalyptic cinema uses images from the past and present to depict what it means to preserve the world—and who is left out of the narrative of rebuilding society. This book is a provocative addition to the field of extinction studies and challenges the conceptual frames we use to define ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2024 Hugh J. Silverman Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWho Would You Kill to Save the World?\u003c\/i\u003e examines how postapocalyptic cinema uses images from the past and present to depict what it means to preserve the world-and who is left out of the narrative of rebuilding society. Claire Colebrook redefines “the world” as affluent Western society and “saving the world” as preventing \u003ci\u003eus\u003c\/i\u003e from becoming the othered \u003ci\u003ethem\u003c\/i\u003e who are viewed in their suffering. Colebrook further examines how the use of postapocalyptic cinema is a humanist-Western, capitalist, colonizing, white, heteronormative, and individualist-creation and challenges the notion that a world built on foundations of exploitation is worth saving.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Colebrook combines postapocalyptic fiction, concern over the global climate crisis, colonialism, and anti-Blackness to explain how contemporary postapocalypse blockbusters circulate ideas of whiteness and the right of the privileged to rebuild the world. \u003ci\u003eWho Would You Kill to Save the World?\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative addition to the field of extinction studies and challenges the conceptual frames we use to define ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40967857995873,"sku":"9781496234988","price":22.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_37624836_8b2e28fa-66e9-4b37-a52a-9dc2d66abd56.jpg?v=1762224229","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781496234988-who-would-you-kill-to-save-the-world","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}