Published
1-9-2026
Type of Work
Book Chapter
Abstract
This chapter explores the representation of the crumbling city in dystopian, speculative, and eco-horror cinema, as three categories that often blend, mingle and merge, placing an emphasis on environmental decay as a sociocultural representation of the fear of human control and the dissolution of perceived human supremacy over the natural world.
Citation
Piatti-Farnell, L. (2026) "Ruined Cities and Environmental Decay in Dystopian, Speculative, and Eco-horror Cinema" in The Encyclopaedia of the Anthropocene, edited by Nathanaël Wallenhorst and Christoph Wulf, 1-7. London: Springer.
Link to Published Work
https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-031-51703-7_110-1