| Description |
xi, 228 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
SUNY series, horizons of cinema |
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SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-221) and index. |
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Includes filmography: p. 207-213. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Reading the environment in popular culture -- Ecology and spectacle in Oil wells of Baku: close view : the first eco-disaster film? -- Environmental politics: Pare Lorentz's The river and the Tennessee Valley Authority -- Reconstructing underground urban space in Dark days -- Ecology, place, and home in Dark city: is it our nature to live in the dark? -- Environmental nostalgia and the tragic eco-hero: the case of Soylent green and the 1970s eco-disaster film -- The comic eco-hero: spoofing eco-disaster in Eight legged freaks -- Eco-terrorism in film: Pale rider and the revenge cycle -- Car culture and the transformation of the American landscape in The fast and the furious -- Film ecology: simulated construction and destruction in Hooper -- Apocalypse as a "return to normality" in 28 days later and 28 weeks later -- Conclusion : Al Gore's An inconvenient truth and its skeptics: a case of environmental nostalgia. |
| Summary |
"Ecology and Popular Film examines representations of nature in mainstream film while also looking at film itself as a form of nature writing. Considering a selection of mainstream movies that embrace a wide variety of environmental themes, Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann explore such themes as environmental politics, eco-terrorism, ecology and home, tragic and comic eco-heroes, the spectacular, and evolutionary narrative, in a manner that is both accessible and fun. The book also includes a comprehensive filmography of films that deal with environmental themes and issues."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Nature in motion pictures.
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Ecology in motion pictures.
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| Added Author |
Heumann, Joseph K.
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| ISBN |
9780791476789 (pbk: alk. paper) |
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0791476782 (pbk: alk. paper) |
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9780791476772 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0791476774 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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