03979nam 2200673 450 991045303590332120200520144314.01-78320-127-41-78320-128-2(CKB)2550000001102309(EBL)1334341(SSID)ssj0000972756(PQKBManifestationID)12338029(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000972756(PQKBWorkID)10959745(PQKB)10957198(MiAaPQ)EBC1334341(Au-PeEL)EBL1334341(CaPaEBR)ebr10825864(CaONFJC)MIL884503(OCoLC)855504254(EXLCZ)99255000000110230920140113d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTransnational ecocinema film culture in an era of ecological transformation /edited by Pietari Kääpä and Tommy Gustafsson ; Jelena Stanovnik, production managerBristol, England ;Chicago, Illinois :Intellect,2013.©20131 online resource (238 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84150-729-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; PART I: Introduction to Transnational Ecocinema; Introduction: Transnational Ecocinema in an age of Ecological Transformation; Transnational Approaches to Ecocinema: Charting an Expansive Field; PART II: Documentary Politics and the Ecological Imagination; Colourful Screens: Water Imaginaries in Documentaries from China and Taiwan; From My Fancy High Heels to Useless Clothing: 'Interconnectedness' and Ecocritical Issues in Transnational Documentaries; Ecocinema and 'Good Life' in Latin AmericaDimensions of Humanity in Earthlings (2005) and Encounters at the End of the World (2007)PART III: Popular Film and Ecology; China Has a Natural Environment, Too!: Consumerist and Ideological Ecoimaginaries in the Cinema of Feng Xiaogang; And the Oscar Goes to ... Ecoheroines, Ecoheros and the Development of Ecothemes from The China Syndrome (1979) to GasLand (2010); PART IV: (In)Sustainable Footprint Of Cinema; Climate Change Films: Fear and Agency Appeals; Envisaging Environmental Change: Foregrounding Place in Three Australian Ecomedia InitiativesAfterword-Towards a Transnational Understanding of the Anthropocene Contributor Details; Index; Back CoverUntil recently, discussion of Hollywood film has dominated much of the contemporary dialogue on ecocriticism and the cinema. Transnational Ecocinema, open up the critical debate to look at a larger variety of films from many different countries and cultures. By foregrounding these films with their economic and political contexts, the contributors offer a more comprehensive and nuanced look at the role of place in ecocinema. The essays also interrogate proposed global solutions to environmental issues by presenting an ecocritical perspective on different film and cultural considerations from arEcology in motion picturesEnvironmentalism in motion picturesEnvironmental protection and motion picturesMotion pictures and transnationalismElectronic books.Ecology in motion pictures.Environmentalism in motion pictures.Environmental protection and motion pictures.Motion pictures and transnationalism.791.436553Kääpä Pietari872715Gustafsson Tommy872716Stanovnik Jelena872717MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453035903321Transnational ecocinema1948414UNINA