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:xii, 257 Seiten : : Illustrationen ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781138791398, 1138791393
oclc:ocn900737873
LC Classification:PN1995.9.N38
Dewey Decimal:791.43/66

Subjects

Aufsatzsammlung Ecology in motion pictures Environmental protection and motion pic… Film NATURE -- Ecology Nature in motion pictures Ökologie PERFORMING ARTS -- Film et Video SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies UMWELTSCHUTZ