Matthew Thompson
Matthew Thompson is an assistant professor in the Department of Film at the University of Regina on Treaty 4 and Métis Homeland in Saskatchewan. His research investigates the ways that science fiction media express environmental politics. In my forthcoming book, On Life Support: Eco-Dystopian Cinema in the Long 1970s, he uses 1970s science fiction ecocinema as a lens through which to view the early environmental movement, a lens that exposes many of the assumptions that continue to influence environmental politics to the present. Other areas of interest include Indigenous futurism, critical animal studies, artificial intelligence, and film philosophy. He has published in the journals Spectator, World Picture, and The New Review of Film and Television Studies.
