Climate change films: Fear and agency appeals

Transnational Ecocinema: Film Culture in an Era of Ecological Transformation

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 165-186

  Crespo, Inês ^a   Pereira, Ângela ^b  

^a New University of Lisbon ^*

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

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