Ecology and popular film : cinema on the edge /
Murray, Robin L.
Ecology and popular film : cinema on the edge / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann. - Albany : SUNY Press, ©2009. - 1 online resource (xi, 228 pages) : illustrations. - SUNY series, horizons of cinema . - SUNY series, horizons of cinema. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-221) and index. Includes filmography: pages 207-213.
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.
"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.
English.
9781441603685 (electronic bk.) 1441603689 (electronic bk.) (hardcover ; alk. paper) (hardcover ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) 0791477177 9780791477175
2008008873
GBB064080 bnb
014906965 Uk
Geschichte 1950-2000.
Geschichte 1956-2006.
Nature in motion pictures.
Ecology in motion pictures.
Nature au cinéma.
PERFORMING ARTS--Film & Video--Reference.
Ecology in motion pictures.
Nature in motion pictures.
Natur
Ökologie
Film
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
Film.
Film--Motiv--Ökologie.
Ökologie--Motiv--Film.
Ökologie.
Film.
Motiv (Film).
Weltuntergang.
Naturen i filmen.
Ekologi i filmen.
Naturen på film.
Ekologi på film.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.N38 / M87 2009eb
791.43/66
Ecology and popular film : cinema on the edge / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann. - Albany : SUNY Press, ©2009. - 1 online resource (xi, 228 pages) : illustrations. - SUNY series, horizons of cinema . - SUNY series, horizons of cinema. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-221) and index. Includes filmography: pages 207-213.
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.
"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.
English.
9781441603685 (electronic bk.) 1441603689 (electronic bk.) (hardcover ; alk. paper) (hardcover ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) 0791477177 9780791477175
2008008873
GBB064080 bnb
014906965 Uk
Geschichte 1950-2000.
Geschichte 1956-2006.
Nature in motion pictures.
Ecology in motion pictures.
Nature au cinéma.
PERFORMING ARTS--Film & Video--Reference.
Ecology in motion pictures.
Nature in motion pictures.
Natur
Ökologie
Film
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
Film.
Film--Motiv--Ökologie.
Ökologie--Motiv--Film.
Ökologie.
Film.
Motiv (Film).
Weltuntergang.
Naturen i filmen.
Ekologi i filmen.
Naturen på film.
Ekologi på film.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.N38 / M87 2009eb
791.43/66