Eco media / Sean Cubitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cubitt, Sean, 1953- author.

Series:

Contemporary Cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature in motion pictures.

Mass media and the environment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Ecomedia

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; New York, New York : Rodopi, [2005]

Summary:

For the last twenty years ecology, the last great political movement of the 20th century, has fired the imaginations not only of political activists but of popular movements throughout the industrialised world. EcoMedia is an enquiry into the popular mediations of environmental concerns in popular film and television since the 1980s. Arranged in a series of case studies on bio-security, relationships with animals, bioethics and biological sciences, over-fishing, eco-terrorism, genetic modification and global warming, EcoMedia offers close readings of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings, Miyazake's Princess Mononoke, The Perfect Storm, X-Men and X2, The Day After Tomorrow and the BBC's drama Edge of Darkness and documentary The Blue Planet. Drawing on the thinking of Flusser, Luhmann, Latour, Agamben and Bookchin, EcoMedia discusses issues from whether animals can draw and why we like to draw animals, to how narrative films can imagine global processes, and whether wonder is still an ethical pleasure. Building on the thesis that popular film and television can tell us a great deal about the state of contemporary beliefs and anxieties, the book builds towards an argument that the polis, the human world, cannot survive without a three way partnership with physis and techne, the green world and the technological.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Cubitt, Sean EcoMedia

ISBN:

9789004454910

OCLC:

1334890388