Research Catalog

Title

Ecocinema and the city / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann.

Author

Murray, Robin L.

Publication

• New York : Routledge, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

Heumann, Joseph K.

Description

vi, 214 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

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.--

Series Statement

Routledge advances in film studies ; 57

Uniform Title

Routledge advances in film studies ; 57.

Subjects

• PERFORMING ARTS / Reference
• Urban ecology (Sociology)
• Cities and towns in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-207) and index.
• Filmography: pages [189]-198.

Contents

Introduction: Urban nature on film -- PART I. Evolutionary myths under the city. 1. The city, the sewers, the underground: reconstructing urban space in film noir -- 2. Documenting environmental adaptation under the city: Children underground (2001) -- PART II. Urban eco-trauma. 3. Girls in the hood: an eco-trauma of girlhood -- 4. Dogs and eco-trauma: the making of a monster in White God -- PART III. Urban nature and interdependence. 5. Hatari means dangers: filmic representations of animal welfare and environmentalism at the zoo -- 6. Exo-therapy in Central Park: documenting urban birdwatching -- 7. Green lungs: partnering with nature in the urban garden film -- PART IV. The sustainable city. 8. Urban farming on film: moving toward environmental justice in the city -- 9. Lives worth living and the sustainable (and accesible) city -- Conclusion: The "absent city" of the future.

Call Number

MFL 18-2645

ISBN

• 9781138303843
• 1138303844

OCLC

1014188530

Author

Murray, Robin L., author. Author

Title

Ecocinema and the city / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann.

Publisher

New York : Routledge, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge advances in film studies ; 57

Routledge advances in film studies ; 57.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-207) and index.

Filmography: pages [189]-198.

Added Author

Heumann, Joseph K., author. Author

Research Call Number

MFL 18-2645