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Dungeon Meshi

The Netflix anime series Dungeon Meshi (Delicious in Dungeon) is unusual in that it constructs the dungeon, a common worldbuilding trope from role-playing games, as an ecosystem and as a metaphor for ecosystemic interactions.
Television SeriesAllegorical FantasyDefamiliarizationExperiencing EcosystemsHumor

Maneater

The main conflict with Scaly Pete could be interpreted as anthropomorphizing the shark since it is a traditional revenge plot, which – played out with people – informs many similarly structure open-world games (the game has been consequently framed as “GTA with sharks”) The narrator, loosely reminiscent of Richard Attenborough’s style of documentary narration, makes
Digital GameAnthropomorphizing AnimalsCleaning PollutionEmpathizing With AnimalsHumor

Don’t Look Up

Don’t Look Up is a 2021 American science fiction/comedy film written, produced, and directed by Adam McKay with a celebrity cast including Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Timothée Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande among others. It tells the story of two astronomers attempting to warn humanity about an approaching comet that will
MovieClimate ApocalypseGreen AesopMedia ReflexivityReframing Climate ScienceAnxietyCatharsisHumorNetflixStreaming Distribution

Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age

IronyHumorIrreverence

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