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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Routledge advances in film studies ; 33 |
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Routledge advances in film studies ; 33.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Eco-Trauma Cinema; 1 Evolution, Extinction and the Eco-Trauma Film: Darwin''s Nightmare (2004) and A Zed & Two Naughts (1985); 2 Trauma, Truth and the Environmental Documentary; 3 Great Southern Wounds: The Trauma of Australian Cinema; 4 Into the Wilde? Art, Technologically Mediated Kinship, and the Lethal Indifference of Nature in Werner Herzog''s Grizzly Man ; 5 The Dangers of Biosecurity: The Host (2006) and the Geopolitics of Outbreak; 6 Biting Back: America, Nature, and Feminism in Teeth |
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7 The Spirits of Globalization: Masochistic Ecologies in Fabrice Du Welz''s Vinyan8 Love in the Times of Ecocide: Environmental Trauma and Comic Relief in Andrew Stanton''s WALL-E; 9 Eavesdropping in The Cove: Interspecies Ethics, Public and Private Space and Trauma under Water; 10 Cooling the Geopolitical to Warm the Ecological: How Human-Induced Warming Phenomena Transformed Modern Horror ; 11 Toxic Media: On the Ecological Impact of Cinema; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
"Film has taken a powerful position alongside the global environmental movement, from didactic documentaries to the fantasy pleasures of commercial franchises. This book investigates in particular film's complex role in representing ecological traumas. Eco-trauma cinema represents the harm we, as humans, inflict upon our natural surroundings, or the injuries we sustain from nature in its unforgiving iterations. The term encompasses both circumstances because these seemingly distinct instances of ecological harm are often related, and even symbiotic: the traumas we perpetuate in an ecosystem through pollution and unsustainable resource management inevitably return to harm us. Contributors to this volume engage with eco-trauma cinema in its three general forms: accounts of people who are traumatized by the natural world, narratives that represent people or social processes which traumatize the environment or its species, and stories that depict the aftermath of ecological catastrophe. The films they examine represent a central challenge of our age: to overcome our disavowal of environmental crises, to reflect on the unsavoury forces reshaping the planet's ecosystems, and to restructure the mechanisms responsible for the state of the earth."-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bibel Philemonbrief gnd |
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Nature in motion pictures.
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Ecology in motion pictures.
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Environmental protection and motion pictures.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
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NATURE -- Ecology.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Ecology in motion pictures
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Environmental protection and motion pictures
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Nature in motion pictures
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Umweltschutz Motiv
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Ökologie Motiv
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Narine, Anil, editor
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| ISBN |
9781317649427 |
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1317649427 |
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9781315762814 |
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1315762811 |
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