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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450784203321

Autore

Brereton Pat

Titolo

Hollywood utopia [[electronic resource] ] : ecology in contemporary american cinema / / Pat Brereton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol ; ; Portland, : Intellect Books, c2005

ISBN

1-280-47697-4

9786610476978

1-84150-912-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

791.4362

791.4366

Soggetti

Motion picture industry - California - Los Angeles

Ecology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Filmography; 1 Hollywood Utopia: Ecology and Contemporary American Cinema; 2 Nature Film and Ecology; 3. Westerns, Landscape and Road Movies; 4 Conspiracy thrillers and Science Fiction: 1950's to 1990's; 5 Postmodernist Science Fiction Films and Ecology; Conclusion; Bibliography; Glossary of Terms

Sommario/riassunto

Utopianism, alongside its more prevalent dystopian opposite together with ecological study has become a magnet for interdisciplinary research and is used extensively to examine the most influential global medium of all time. The book applies a range of interdisciplinary strategies to trace the evolution of ecological representations in Hollywood film from 1950's to the present, which has not been done on this scale before. Many popular science fiction, westerns, nature and road movies, as listed in the filmography are extensively analysed while particularly privileging ecological moments