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Inhospitable world : cinema in the time of the Anthropocene
- Title
- Inhospitable world : cinema in the time of the Anthropocene / Jennifer Fay.
- Author
- Fay, Jennifer
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Description
- xi, 253 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In recent years, environmental and human rights advocates have suggested that we have entered the first new geological epoch since the end of the ice age: the Anthropocene. In this new epoch, humans have come to reshape both the climate and natural world; humankind has caused mass extinctions of plant and animal species, polluted the oceans, and irreversibly altered the atmosphere. While standard ecological criticism attends to the environmental crisis as an unraveling of our natural state, this book looks to film to consider how it reflects upon the creation and destruction of human environments. What are the implications of ecological inhospitality? What role might cinema and media theory play in challenging our presumed right to occupy and populate the world? As an art form, film enjoys a unique relationship to the material, elemental world it captures and produces. Through it, we may appreciate the ambitions to design an unhomely planet that may no longer accommodate us"--Page [4] of cover.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index.
- Call Number
- MFL 18-4654
- ISBN
- 9780190696788
- 0190696788
- 019069677X
- 9780190696771
- OCLC
- 1016935065
- Author
- Fay, Jennifer, author.
- Title
- Inhospitable world : cinema in the time of the Anthropocene / Jennifer Fay.
- Publisher
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 18-4654