Ecology and Popular Film: Cinema on the Edge (SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema)
"A timely and significant contribution to the growing field of ecomedia studies, Ecology and Popular Film: Cinema on the Edge explores the explicit and subtle portrayals of socio-ecological issues at play in a wide range of popular films ... [it]will inspire literary and media eco-critics to continue a conversation sure to shape the future of both fields." -- Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media"...Murray and Heumann's book positions itself firmly in the field of ecocriticism, expanding its scope and influence to include film." -- Film & History"At once compact and daring, this remarkable book examines a wide variety of texts that deal with issues of the Earth's rapidly dwindling natural resources ... Illustrated throughout with superbly reproduced 'frame grabs' and imbued with a tone that is at once scholarly and accessible, this book deals persuasively with a topic of great concern to contemporary audiences." -- CHOICE "The authors discover something like an 'ecological consciousness' at work in popular film, finding that movies as diverse as Pale Rider and Eight Legged Freaks bring to light large-scale concerns about ecological well being, and what might be called ecological trauma--opening up a space for hope and change." -- James Morrison, author ofRoman Polanski