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Film and Everyday Eco-disasters /

Eco-disasters such as coal-mining accidents, oil spills, and food-borne diseases appear regularly in the news, making them seem nearly commonplace. These ecological crises highlight the continual tensions between human needs and the environmental impact these needs produce. Contemporary documentarie...

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Autores principales: Murray, Robin L. (Autor), Heumann, Joseph K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Introduction: cinematic ecodisasters and our basic human needs -- Human approaches to the ecology of air, water, and clothing. At the boiling point: the aesthetics of atmospheric pollution and climate change in documentary and feature films -- James Bond and water wars in contemporary film: a new ecowarrior? -- Ready to wear? from fashion to environmental justice -- Ecodocumentaries and the rhetoric of food production. Contemporary ecofood films: the documentary tradition -- Flipper? We're eating Flipper? documenting animals rights and environmental ethics at sea -- Negative externalities of housing and energy industries -- Give me shelter: the ecology of homes and homelessness -- Activism in mountaintop removal films: turn off the lights for sustainability -- The search for the "golden shrimp": the myth of interdependence in oil drilling films -- Conclusion: can the film industry and the environmental movement mix? 
520 |a Eco-disasters such as coal-mining accidents, oil spills, and food-borne diseases appear regularly in the news, making them seem nearly commonplace. These ecological crises highlight the continual tensions between human needs and the environmental impact these needs produce. Contemporary documentaries and feature films explore environmental-human conflicts by depicting the consequences of our overconsumption and dependence on nonrenewable energy. Film and Everyday Eco-disasters examines changing perspectives toward everyday eco-disasters as reflected in the work of filmmakers from the silent era forward, with an emphasis on recent films such as Dead Ahead, an HBO dramatization of the Exxon Valdez disaster; Total Recall, a science fiction action film highlighting oxygen as a commodity; The Devil Wears Prada, a comment on the fashion industry; and Food, Inc., a documentary interrogation of the food industry. The authors evaluate not only the success of these films as rhetorical arguments but also their rhetorical strategies. This interdisciplinary approach to film studies fuses cultural, economic, and literary critiques in articulating an approach to ecology that points to sustainable development as an alternative to resource exploitations and their associated everyday eco-disasters. --Provided by publisher. 
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