Drowned Futures and Ecological Reflections: Mediations of a Disanthropic Earth in Manifest Destiny and The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human.
This essay presents an intermedial ecocritical analysis of the mural Manifest Destiny and the metroidvania video game The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human. It examines these two distinct media products as disanthropic narratives by comparing how they mediate the themes of human extinction and nat...
| Published in: | Ekphrasis (2067-631X) Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 268 - 290 |
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Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Theatre & Television
2025
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