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Author : Robin L. Murray
Release : 2009-01-08
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 177/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ecology and Popular Film by : Robin L. Murray
Download or read book Ecology and Popular Film written by Robin L. Murray. This book was released on 2009-01-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecocritical takes on popular film.
Author : Anat Pick
Release : 2013-11-01
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 275/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Screening Nature by : Anat Pick
Download or read book Screening Nature written by Anat Pick. This book was released on 2013-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmentalism and ecology are areas of rapid growth in academia and society at large. Screening Nature is the first comprehensive work that groups together the wide range of concerns in the field of cinema and the environment, and what could be termed “posthuman cinema.” It comprises key readings that highlight the centrality of nature and nonhuman animals to the cinematic medium, and to the language and institution of film. The book offers a fresh and timely intervention into contemporary film theory through a focus on the nonhuman environment as principal register in many filmic texts. Screening Nature offers an extensive resource for teachers, undergraduate students, and more advanced scholars on the intersections between the natural world and the worlds of film. It emphasizes the cross-cultural and geographically diverse relevance of the topic of cinema ecology.
Author : Ellen E. Moore
Release : 2017-11-09
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 110/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Landscape and the Environment in Hollywood Film by : Ellen E. Moore
Download or read book Landscape and the Environment in Hollywood Film written by Ellen E. Moore. This book was released on 2017-11-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book systematically explores how popular Hollywood film portrays environmental issues through various genres. In so doing, it reveals the influence exerted by media consolidation and the drive for profit on Hollywood’s portrayal of the natural landscape, which ultimately shapes how environmental problems and their solutions are presented to audiences. Analysis is framed by a consideration of how cultural studies can make more theoretical and practical room for environmental concern, thereby expanding its capacity for critical examination. The book begins by introducing the theoretical underpinning of the research as it relates to cultural studies, landscape, and genre. In the chapters that follow, each genre is taken in turn, starting with popular animated family films and progressing through spy thrillers, eco-thrillers, science fiction, Westerns, superhero films, and drama. This book is ideal for students and scholars in a variety of disciplines, including film, environmental studies, communication, political economy, and cultural studies.
Author : Peter McLennan
Release : 2012-04
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 410/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Who Will Save the Planet? by : Peter McLennan
Download or read book Who Will Save the Planet? written by Peter McLennan. This book was released on 2012-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Jason can’t work out how to get climate change fixed—until he saves the life of the mysterious and powerful Graham. Graham promises a reward, and Jason asks him to do something to stop climate change. The request is caught by the media, so Jason thinks the man’s trapped and has to keep his word. But Graham’s got other ideas. Jason’s got a fight on his hands.
Author : Alexa Weik von Mossner
Release : 2014-10-07
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 045/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Moving Environments by : Alexa Weik von Mossner
Download or read book Moving Environments written by Alexa Weik von Mossner. This book was released on 2014-10-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, international scholars investigate how films portray human emotional relationships with the more-than-human world and how such films act upon their viewers’ emotions. Emotion and affect are the basic mechanisms that connect us to our environment, shape our knowledge, and motivate our actions. Contributors explore how film represents and shapes human emotion in relation to different environments and what role time, place, and genre play in these affective processes. Individual essays resituate well-researched environmental films such as An Inconvenient Truth and March of the Penguins by paying close attention to their emotionalizing strategies, and bring to our attention the affective qualities of films that have so far received little attention from ecocritics, such as Stan Brakhage’s Dog Star Man. The collection opens a new discursive space at the disciplinary intersection of film studies, affect studies, and a growing body of ecocritical scholarship. It will be of interest not only to scholars and students working in the field of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, but for everyone with an interest in our emotional responses to film.
