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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785896503321

Titolo

Ecocinema theory and practice / / edited by Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, and Sean Cubitt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-25634-2

1-283-60656-9

9786613919014

1-136-25635-0

0-203-10605-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Collana

AFI film readers

Altri autori (Persone)

CubittSean <1953->

MonaniSalma

RustStephen

Disciplina

791.43/6553

Soggetti

Environmental protection and motion pictures

Environmentalism in motion pictures

Ecology in motion pictures

Documentary films - History and criticism

Motion pictures - United States

Ecocriticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

ECOCINEMA THEORY AND PRACTICE; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: cuts to dissolves-defining and situating ecocinema studies; Part I Ecocinema Theory; 1 The ecocinema experience; 2 The aesthetics and ethics of eco-film criticism; 3 Ecocinema and ideology: do ecocritics dream of a clockwork green?; 4 An ecophilosophy of the moving image: cinema as anthrobiogeomorphic machine; Part II Ecocinema Practice: Wildlife and Documentary Film; 5 Penguins are good to think with: wildlife films, the imaginary shaping of nature, and environmental politics

6 Working with animals: regarding companion species in documentary film7 Beyond fluidity: a cultural history of cinema under water; 8 Nature



writes the screenplays: commercial wildlife films and ecological entertainment; Part III Ecocinema Practice: Hollywood and Fictional Film; 9 Hollywood and climate change; 10 Appreciating the views: filming nature in into the wild, grizzly man, and into the west; 11 Sympathy for the devil: the cannibalistic hillbilly in 1970s rural slasher films; Part IV Beyond Film

12 Environmental film festivals: beginning explorations at the intersections of film festival studies and ecocritical studies13 Everybody knows this is nowhere: data visualization and ecocriticism; Resources; Contributors; About the american film institute; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Ecocinema Theory and Practice is the first collection of its kind-an anthology that offers a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of eco-film criticism, a branch of critical scholarship that investigates cinema's intersections with environmental understandings. It references seminal readings through cutting edge research and is designed as an introduction to the field as well as a sourcebook. It defines ecocinema studies, sketches its development over the past twenty years, provides theoretical frameworks for moving forward, and presents eloquent examples of the