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Ecology and popular film :

0791476774 (hardcover : alk. paper)

0791476782 (pbk: alk. paper)

9780791476772 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Ecology and popular film :

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cinema on the edge /

Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann

Albany :

SUNY Press,

c2009

xi, 228 p. :

ill. ;

23 cm

SUNY series, horizons of cinema

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-221) and index

Includes filmography: p. 207-213

Introduction : Reading the environment in popular culture -- Ecology and spectacle in Oil wells of Baku: close view : the first eco-disaster film? -- Environmental politics: Pare Lorentz's The river and the Tennessee Valley Authority -- Reconstructing underground urban space in Dark days -- Ecology, place, and home in Dark city: is it our nature to live in the dark? -- Environmental nostalgia and the tragic eco-hero: the case of Soylent green and the 1970s eco-disaster film -- The comic eco-hero: spoofing eco-disaster in Eight legged freaks -- Eco-terrorism in film: Pale rider and the revenge cycle -- Car culture and the transformation of the American landscape in The fast and the furious -- Film ecology: simulated construction and destruction in Hooper -- Apocalypse as a "return to normality" in 28 days later and 28 weeks later -- Conclusion : Al Gore's An inconvenient truth and its skeptics: a case of environmental nostalgia

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Ecology in motion pictures

Nature in motion pictures

Murray, Robin L

Heumann, Joseph K

20090430000000.0

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