Collaborative Survival in Paul Schrader's 'First Reformed'
| dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage | 75 | |
| dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage | 92 | |
| dc.bibliographicCitation.volume | 16 | |
| dc.contributor.author | Czerwońska, Michalina | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Bertram, Anne I. | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Demirkaya, N. Selin | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Hartrodt, Luisa | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Noack, Sophia | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Örcün, Batuhan | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Pott, Maximilian | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Rosa-Eick, Gabriela | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Stachurska, Karolina | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-02-16T16:54:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-02-16T16:54:55Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article examines Paul Schrader’s film <i>First Reformed</i> (2017) from an ecocritical perspective, building on Lawrence Buell’s understanding of the climate crisis as a crisis of imagination, and the subsequent need and search for new, non-individualistic perspectives that could aid in the resolution of said crisis. I predominately employ two critical frameworks: affect theory and the concepts from Donna Haraway’s essay “Symbiogenesis, Sympoiesis, and Art Science Activisms for Staying with the Trouble.” Drawing on the notions of climate-induced anxiety and depression as well as Ann Cvetkovich’s term ‘public feeling,’ I analyze the workings of affect in the film. I argue that both Haraway’s essay and Schrader’s film propose similar strategies for survivalin the face of climate change. The article also includes a brief rejection of eco-theological perspectives that, at first glance, may seem relevant to the film. Instead, I propose a reading of First Reformed as a text that upholds collaboration with others as the most crucial strategy for survival in the face of climate change. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.54465/aspeers.16-09 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/3762 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.relation.eissn | 2199-7284 | |
| dc.relation.issn | 2199-7284 | |
| dc.relation.issn | 1865-8768 | en_US |
| dc.relation.journal | aspeers | |
| dc.relation.journalalt | emerging voices in american studies | |
| dc.rights | CC BY 3.0 | |
| dc.subject.ddc | ddc:791 | |
| dc.subject.field | americanstudies | |
| dc.subject.field | filmstudies | |
| dc.subject.field | environmentalstudies | |
| dc.title | Collaborative Survival in Paul Schrader's 'First Reformed' | |
| dc.title.specialissue | American Apocalypses | |
| dc.type | article | |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication |