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Title Framing the world [electronic resource] : explorations in ecocriticism and film / edited by Paula Willoquet-Maricondi.

Imprint Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.

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Description xvii, 258 p.
Series Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocentricism
Under the sign of nature.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: from literary to cinematic ecocriticism / Paula Willoquet-Maricondi -- Ecocinema as and for activism. The rhetoric of ascent in An inconvenient truth and Everything's cool / Mark Minster -- Shifting paradigms: from environmentalist films to ecocinema / Paula Willoquet-Maricondi -- Ecocinema, ecojustice, and indigenous worldviews: native and first nations media as cultural recovery / Jennifer A. Machiorlatti -- Bodies that matter: environmental justice in fiction and documentary films. Testimonial structures in environmental justice films / Cory Shaman -- Disposable bodies: biocolonialism in The constant gardener and Dirty pretty things / Rachel Stein -- Engaging the land/positioning the spectator: environmental justice documentaries and Robert Redford's The horse whisperer and A river runs through it / Beth Berila -- Positioning ecosystems in fiction, documentary, and animation. The landscape's lie: class, economy, and ecology in Hotel Rwanda / Harri Kilpi -- Fast, furious, and out of control: the erasure of natural landscapes in car culture films / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann -- The screaming silence: constructions of nature in Werner Herzog's Grizzly man / Elizabeth Henry -- Bambi and Finding Nemo: a sense of wonder in the wonderful world of Disney? / Lynne Dickson Bruckner -- Art cinema eco-auteurs. The rules of the world: Japanese ecocinema and Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Tim Palmer -- Beyond the frame: the spirit of place in Peter Greenaway's The draughtsman's contract / Paula Willoquet-Maricondi.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Environmental protection and motion pictures.
Human ecology in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
Ecocriticism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Willoquet-Maricondi, Paula, 1960-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780813930053 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813930057 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813930060 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813930065 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813930669 (electronic bk.)
9780813930664 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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