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Eco-Trauma Cinema

Anil Narine
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Author : Anil Narine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317649410

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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.

Trauma Cinema

Janet Walker
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Author : Janet Walker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520241756

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'Trauma Cinema' focuses on a new breed of documentary films that adopt catastrophe as their subject matter & trauma as their aesthetic. Walker uses incest & the Holocaust as a double thematic focus & fiction films as a point of comparison.

Ecologies of the Moving Image

Adrian J. Ivakhiv
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Author : Adrian J. Ivakhiv
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781554589067

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This book presents an ecophilosophy of cinema: an account of the moving image in relation to the lived ecologies – material, social, and perceptual relations – within which movies are produced, consumed, and incorporated into cultural life. If cinema takes us on mental and emotional journeys, the author argues that those journeys that have reshaped our understanding of ourselves, life, and the Earth and universe. A range of styles are examined, from ethnographic and wildlife documentaries, westerns and road movies, sci-fi blockbusters and eco-disaster films to the experimental and art films of Tarkovsky, Herzog, Malick, and Brakhage, to YouTube’s expanding audio-visual universe.

Chinese Ecocinema

Sheldon H. Lu,Jiayan Mi
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Author : Sheldon H. Lu,Jiayan Mi
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789622090866

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Chinese Ecocinema by Sheldon H. Lu,Jiayan Mi Pdf

This anthology is a book-length study of China's ecosystem through the lens of cinema. Proposing 'ecocinema' as a new critical framework, the volume collectively investigates a wide range of urgent topics in today's world.

Ecocinema in the City

Robin L. Murray,Joseph K. Heumann
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Author : Robin L. Murray,Joseph K. Heumann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351398244

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Ecocinema in the City by Robin L. Murray,Joseph K. Heumann Pdf

In Ecocinema in the City, Murray and Heumann argue that urban ecocinema both reveals and critiques visions of urban environmentalism. The book emphasizes the increasingly transformative power of nature in urban settings, explored in both documentaries and fictional films such as Children Underground, White Dog, Hatari! and Lives Worth Living. The first two sections—"Evolutionary Myths Under the City" and "Urban Eco-trauma"—take more traditional ecocinema approaches and emphasize the city as a dangerous constructed space. The last two sections—"Urban Nature and Interdependence" and "The Sustainable City"—however, bring to life the vibrant relationships between human and nonhuman nature. Ecocinema in the City provides a space to explore these relationships, revealing how ecocinema shows that both human and nonhuman nature can interact sustainably and thrive.

Ecology and Popular Film

Robin L. Murray,Joseph K. Heumann
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Author : Robin L. Murray,Joseph K. Heumann
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780791477175

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Ecology and Popular Film by Robin L. Murray,Joseph K. Heumann Pdf

Ecocritical takes on popular film.

Climate Trauma

E. Ann Kaplan
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Author : E. Ann Kaplan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813564012

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Each month brings new scientific findings that demonstrate the ways in which human activities, from resource extraction to carbon emissions, are doing unprecedented, perhaps irreparable damage to our world. As we hear these climate change reports and their predictions for the future of Earth, many of us feel a sickening sense of déjà vu, as though we have already seen the sad outcome to this story. Drawing from recent scholarship that analyzes climate change as a form of “slow violence” that humans are inflicting on the environment, Climate Trauma theorizes that such violence is accompanied by its own psychological condition, what its author terms “Pretraumatic Stress Disorder.” Examining a variety of films that imagine a dystopian future, renowned media scholar E. Ann Kaplan considers how the increasing ubiquity of these works has exacerbated our sense of impending dread. But she also explores ways these films might help us productively engage with our anxieties, giving us a seemingly prophetic glimpse of the terrifying future selves we might still work to avoid becoming. Examining dystopian classics like Soylent Green alongside more recent examples like The Book of Eli, Climate Trauma also stretches the limits of the genre to include features such as Blindness, The Happening, Take Shelter, and a number of documentaries on climate change. These eclectic texts allow Kaplan to outline the typical blind-spots of the genre, which rarely depicts climate catastrophe from the vantage point of women or minorities. Lucidly synthesizing cutting-edge research in media studies, psychoanalytic theory, and environmental science, Climate Trauma provides us with the tools we need to extract something useful from our nightmares of a catastrophic future.

The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender

Kristin Lené Hole,Dijana Jelača,E. Ann Kaplan,Patrice Petro
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Author : Kristin Lené Hole,Dijana Jelača,E. Ann Kaplan,Patrice Petro
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317408055

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The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender by Kristin Lené Hole,Dijana Jelača,E. Ann Kaplan,Patrice Petro Pdf

Comprised of 43 innovative contributions, this companion is both an overview of, and intervention into the field of cinema and gender. The essays included here address a variety of geographical contexts, from an analysis of cinema. Islam and women and television under Eastern European socialism, to female audience reception in Nigeria, to changing class and race norms in Bollywood dance sequences. A special focus is on women directors in a global context that includes films and filmmakers from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, North and South America. The collection also offers a solid overview of feminist contributions to thinking on genre from the "chick flick" to the action or Western film, to film noir and the slasher. Readers will find contributions on a variety of approaches to spectatorship, reception studies and fandom, as well as transnational approaches to star studies and essays addressing the relationship between feminist film theory and new media. Other topics include queer and trans* cinema, eco-cinema and the post-human. Finally, readers interested in the history of film will find essays addressing the methodological dimensions of feminist film history, essays on silent and studio era women in film, and histories of female filmmakers in a variety of non-Western contexts.

Italian Experiences of Trauma through Film and Media

Alberto Baracco,Rosario Pollicino
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Author : Alberto Baracco,Rosario Pollicino
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527580978

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Italian Experiences of Trauma through Film and Media by Alberto Baracco,Rosario Pollicino Pdf

This volume offers new approaches to considering Italy’s traumatic experiences through a wide array of media, including film, documentaries, docufiction, websites, YouTube videos, advertisements, newspapers, and literature, that have not yet been fully analyzed. It looks at the trauma inflicted on Italians not, simply, as national or cultural traumas but, rather, as the creation/identification of subnational and transnational communities shaped by these trauma cases. The term “subnational”, or “transnational”, community is used mostly in reference to human beings, as they form those communities; however, they are also connected to a specific place, namely Italy. In addition, whereas “things” cannot become traumatized, this book also considers “living things,” such as the environment and the nature, which may create further trauma(s) for people.

Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis

Robert Geal
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Author : Robert Geal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032027762

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Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis by Robert Geal Pdf

This book applies ecolinguistics and psychoanalysis to explore how films fictionalising environmental disasters provide spectacular warnings against the dangers of environmental apocalypse, while highlighting that even these apparently environmentally friendly films can still facilitate problematic real-world changes in how people treat the environment. Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis argues that these films exploit cinema's inherent Cartesian grammar to construct texts in which not only small groups of protagonist survivors, but also vicarious spectators, pleasurably transcend the fictionalised destruction. The ideological nature of the 'lifeboats' on which these survivors escape, moreover, is accompanied by additional elements that constitute contemporary Cartesian subjectivity, such as class and gender binaries, restored nuclear families, individual as opposed to social responsibilities for disasters, and so on. The book conducts extensive analyses of these processes, before considering alternative forms of filmmaking that might avoid the dangers of this existing form of storytelling. The book's new ecosophy and film theory establishes that Cartesian subjectivity is an environmentally destructive 'symptom' that everyday linguistic activities like watching films reinforce. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of film studies, literary studies (specifically ecocriticism), cultural studies, ecolinguistics, and ecosophy.

Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis

Robert Geal
Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis Book PDF

Author : Robert Geal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000405798

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This book applies ecolinguistics and psychoanalysis to explore how films fictionalising environmental disasters provide spectacular warnings against the dangers of environmental apocalypse, while highlighting that even these apparently environmentally friendly films can still facilitate problematic real-world changes in how people treat the environment. Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis argues that these films exploit cinema’s inherent Cartesian grammar to construct texts in which not only small groups of protagonist survivors, but also vicarious spectators, pleasurably transcend the fictionalised destruction. The ideological nature of the ‘lifeboats’ on which these survivors escape, moreover, is accompanied by additional elements that constitute contemporary Cartesian subjectivity, such as class and gender binaries, restored nuclear families, individual as opposed to social responsibilities for disasters, and so on. The book conducts extensive analyses of these processes, before considering alternative forms of filmmaking that might avoid the dangers of this existing form of storytelling. The book’s new ecosophy and film theory establishes that Cartesian subjectivity is an environmentally destructive ‘symptom’ that everyday linguistic activities like watching films reinforce. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of film studies, literary studies (specifically ecocriticism), cultural studies, ecolinguistics, and ecosophy.

The Horrors of Trauma in Cinema

Michael Elm,Kobi Kabalek,Julia B. Köhne
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Author : Michael Elm,Kobi Kabalek,Julia B. Köhne
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443868518

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The Horrors of Trauma in Cinema by Michael Elm,Kobi Kabalek,Julia B. Köhne Pdf

This volume explores the multifaceted depiction and staging of historical and social traumata as the result of extreme violence within national contexts. It focuses on Israeli-Palestinian, German and (US) American film, and reaches out to cinematic traditions from other countries like France, Great Britain and the former USSR. International and interdisciplinary scholars analyze both mainstream and avant-garde movies and documentaries premiering from the 1960s to the present. From transnational and cross-genre perspectives, they query the modes of representation – regarding narration, dramaturgy, aesthetics, mise-en-scène, iconology, lighting, cinematography, editing and sound – held by film as a medium to visualize shattering experiences of violence and their traumatic encoding in individuals, collectives, bodies and psyches. This anthology uniquely traces horror aesthetics and trajectories as a way to reenact, echo and question the perpetual loops of trauma in film cultures. The contributors examine the discursive transfer between historical traumata necessarily transmitted in a medialized and conceptualized form, the changing landscape of (clinical) trauma theory, the filmic depiction and language of trauma, and the official memory politics and hegemonic national-identity constructions.

Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2

Stephen Rust,Salma Monani,Seán Cubitt
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Author : Stephen Rust,Salma Monani,Seán Cubitt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000827040

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Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2 by Stephen Rust,Salma Monani,Seán Cubitt Pdf

This second volume builds on the initial groundwork laid by Ecocinema Theory and Practice by examining the ways in which ecocritical cinema studies have matured and proliferated over the last decade, opening whole new areas of study and research. Featuring fourteen new essays organized into three sections around the themes of cinematic materialities, discourses, and communities, the volume explores a variety of topics within ecocinema studies from examining specific national and indigenous film contexts to discussing ecojustice, environmental production studies, film festivals, and political ecology. The breadth of the contributions exemplifies how ecocinema scholars worldwide have sought to overcome the historical legacy of binary thinking and intellectual norms and are working to champion new ecocritical, intersectional, decolonial, queer, feminist, Indigenous, vitalist, and other emergent theories and cinematic practices. The collection also demonstrates the unique ways that cinema studies scholarship is actively addressing environmental injustice and the climate crisis. This book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of ecocritical film and media studies, production studies, cultural studies, and environmental studies.

Film, Environment, Comedy

Robin L. Murray,Joseph K. Heumann
Film Environment Comedy Book PDF

Author : Robin L. Murray,Joseph K. Heumann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000588569

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Film, Environment, Comedy by Robin L. Murray,Joseph K. Heumann Pdf

This book explores the transformative power of comedy to help connect a wider audience to films that explore environmental concerns and issues. This book offers a space in which to explore the complex ways environmental comedies present their eco-arguments. With an organizational structure that reveals the evolution of both eco-comedy films and theoretical approaches, this book project aims to fill a gap in ecocinema scholarship. It does so by exploring three sections arranged to highlight the breadth of eco-comedy: I. Comic Genres and the Green World: Pastoral, Anti-Pastoral, and Post-Pastoral Visions; II. Laughter, Eco-Heroes, and Evolutionary Narratives of Consumption; and III. Environmental Nostalgia, Fuel, and the Carnivalesque. Examining everything from Hollywood classics, Oscar winners, and animation to independent and international films, Murray and Heumann exemplify how the use of comedy can expose and amplify environmental issues to a wider audience than more traditional ecocinema genres and can help provide a path towards positive action and change. Ideal for students and scholars of film studies, ecocriticism, and environmental studies, especially those with a particular interest in ecocinema and/or ecocritical readings of popular films.

Basilicata and Southern Italy Between Film and Ecology

Alberto Baracco,Manuela Gieri
Basilicata and Southern Italy Between Film and Ecology Book PDF

Author : Alberto Baracco,Manuela Gieri
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031135736

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Basilicata and Southern Italy Between Film and Ecology by Alberto Baracco,Manuela Gieri Pdf

This volume offers an open, transdisciplinary living space (also green) through which to explore the different connections between Basilicata and Southern Italy, cinema, and ecology, and thus to reflect on the different forms through which the historical, cultural, and social contexts of Southern Italian regions have been variously identified and represented. In order to explore these connections, the volume embraces a wide range of perspectives that may all be grouped under the key term film ecocriticism, offering the reader a thorough analysis not only of the different ways of representing reality but also of the processes of signification through which reality itself can be understood, rethought, and transformed. This is the general framework within which the authors consider film as a proper, effective medium for ecocritical and ecophilosophical reflections concerning not only Basilicata (to which the greater part of the volume is dedicated) but also Southern Italy and, therefore, its history and its territories, communities, and identities. Furthermore, in an even more general sense, Basilicata and Southern Italy reconnects with the very idea of the South, and of all Souths, to which this volume is dedicated.