Green cultural studies
Subtitle: nature in film, novel, and theory
By: Jhan Hochman.
Publisher: University of Idaho Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Moscow, ID
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Nature in motion pictures; Nature in literature; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Description: This multifaceted work of cultural criticism shows how differences separating culture from nature influence not only nature's treatment, but the treatment of human groups currently demarcated by the categories of race, class, gender, and sexuality. While the predominant current in green criticism - especially the seminal works of Donna J.

Haraway and Andrew Ross - favors breaking down boundaries between animal and human, between nature and technology, Jhan Hochman shows these attempts at border crossing to reaffirm what they would erase: the promotion of culture over and against the needs of nature. While Hochman also shares the current suspicion of boundaries and borders, he is less intent on a melodrama of destruction than on a conversation concerning difference.

Green Cultural Studies - a work of textual analysis and polemical theory - will upset and delight a variety of readers. Film critics will be challenged by Hochman's illuminating readings of film. Marxists will find splendid capitalist critiques. Comparatists, myth critics, ecocritics, and intellectuals will find engaging observations, as will literary critics, deconstructionists, philosophers of technology and science, cultural critics, and environmental activists.

Green Cultural Studies is a valuable reference book to anyone teaching, writing, or thinking about the intricate issues of nature and culture.
Notes: "Bibliography/filmography": p. [221]-230.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-234).