Ecology and popular film : cinema on the edge / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Robin L., author.

Heumann, Joseph K., author.

Series:

SUNY series, horizons of cinema.

SUNY series, horizons of cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature in motion pictures.

Ecology in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 228 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York State : SUNY Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-221) and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-7717-7

1-4416-0368-9