4 AUSTRALIAN academics at Monash University discuss the rise of ''climate fiction'' genre of novels in this Age of the Anthrocene, with special emphasis on Australian novelists such as Nevil Shute, who wrote ON THE BEACH in 1957 about nuclear war. "The most influential novel ever written in Australia."

4 AUSTRALIAN academics at Monash University discuss the rise of ''climate fiction'' genre of novels in this Age of the Anthrocene, with special emphasis on Australian novelists such as Nevil Shute, who wrote ON THE BEACH in 1957 about nuclear war. "The most influential novel ever written in Australia." -- In Australia a 1-hour cli-fi panel discussion on VIDEO HERE with academics David Holmes, Deb Anderson, Andrew Milner, and Simon Torok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXuqrdfNLaU&feature=youtu.be *** and best to go straight to special Professor Milner's discussion of the backstory of how cli-fi came to be what it is, and his chat starts at 42:00 minutes into the video at the 42-minute mark and his remarks are STARTLING and GOOD and very Australian!

Media Matters: Stories of Climate Change

Welcome to Media Matters, the School of Media, Film and Journalism seminar series. Media increasingly shapes cultures, industries, markets and values in diff...

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