Framing the world
Subtitle: explorations in ecocriticism and film
By: edited by Paula Willoquet-Maricondi.
Contributors: Willoquet-Maricondi, Paula, 1960-
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780813930053; 9780813930060; 9780813930664
Subjects: Environmental protection and motion pictures; Human ecology in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- Social aspects; Ecocriticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: from literary to cinematic ecocriticism / Paula Willoquet-Maricondi; title: Ecocinema as and for activism. The rhetoric of ascent in An inconvenient truth and Everything's cool / Mark Minster; title: Shifting paradigms: from environmentalist films to ecocinema / Paula Willoquet-Maricondi; title: Ecocinema, ecojustice, and indigenous worldviews: native and first nations media as cultural recovery / Jennifer A. Machiorlatti; title: Bodies that matter: environmental justice in fiction and documentary films. Testimonial structures in environmental justice films / Cory Shaman; title: Disposable bodies: biocolonialism in The constant gardener and Dirty pretty things / Rachel Stein; title: Engaging the land/positioning the spectator: environmental justice documentaries and Robert Redford's The horse whisperer and A river runs through it / Beth Berila; title: Positioning ecosystems in fiction, documentary, and animation. The landscape's lie: class, economy, and ecology in Hotel Rwanda / Harri Kilpi; title: Fast, furious, and out of control: the erasure of natural landscapes in car culture films / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann; title: The screaming silence: constructions of nature in Werner Herzog's Grizzly man / Elizabeth Henry; title: Bambi and Finding Nemo: a sense of wonder in the wonderful world of Disney? / Lynne Dickson Bruckner; title: Art cinema eco-auteurs. The rules of the world: Japanese ecocinema and Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Tim Palmer; title: Beyond the frame: the spirit of place in Peter Greenaway's The draughtsman's contract / Paula Willoquet-Maricondi.