The (Common) Worlds of Dragons: Nature, Humans, and the Anthropocene in Children’s Films

From a time to the present, the Anthropocene, and especially its most visible consequences such as the mass extinction of animal species and climate change, has made its way into the cultural industry aimed at children and families in diverse forms: from books and documentaries explicitly calling children to change their lives and their impact over the world through more sustainable practices, to films integrating these themes into their narratives in more or less realistic and/or fantastic ways. Here, the author focuses on the latter, examining one kind of being that has become popular in the last decade: dragons. The chapter suggests that, in these films, dragons act as a representation of nature. The author explores narratives and discusses them from common world’s perspectives, feminist ecologies, and epistemologies. Are these films helping children to become with the worlds in which they live? Or are they promoting views that intensify the divide between humans and the more-than-human beings with whom we share the world?.