Eco-trauma cinema

by Narine, Anil

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Title Statements

Full title :Eco-trauma cinema / edited by Anil Narine.

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."--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781317649427, 1317649427, 9781315762814, 1315762811
oclc:ocn891671394
LC Classification:PN1995.9.N38
Dewey Decimal:791.43/66

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.

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.

Subjects

Bibel, Philemonbrief Ecology in motion pictures Environmental protection and motion pic… NATURE -- Ecology Nature au cinéma Nature in motion pictures Ökologie PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference Protection de l'environnement et cinéma SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies UMWELTSCHUTZ