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Framing the world : explorations in ecocriticism and film / edited by Paula Willoquet-Maricondi.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Under the sign of nature.
- Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocentricism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental protection and motion pictures.
- Human ecology in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects.
- Motion pictures.
- Ecocriticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Heumann, Eastern Illinois University * Harri Kilpi, University of East Anglia * Jennifer Machiorlatti, Western Michigan University * Mark Minster, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology * Robin L. Murray, Eastern Illinois University * Tim Palmer, University of North Carolina, Wilmington * Cory Shaman, Arkansas Tech University * Rachel Stein, Siena College * Paula Willoquet-Maricondi, Marist College.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613585424
- 9781280490194
- 1280490195
- 9780813930664
- 0813930669
- OCLC:
- 755622705
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