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📖 Description
Ecocritical takes on popular film.Ecology and Popular Filmexamines 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, from the Lumières'Oil Wells of Baku(1896) to Al Gore'sAn Inconvenient Truth (2006), Murray and 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. Other films discussed includeThe River(1937),Soylent Green (1971),Pale Rider(1985),28 Days Later(2002), andThe Day After Tomorrow(2004). The book also includes a comprehensive filmography of films that deal with environmental themes and issues.
