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Green cultural studies : nature in film, novel, and theory

Title
Green cultural studies : nature in film, novel, and theory / Jhan Hochman.
Author
Hochman, Jhan, 1952-
Publication
Moscow, ID : University of Idaho Press, 1998.

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234 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  • 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.
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • "Bibliography/filmography": p. [221]-230.
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-234).
Contents
Pt. I. Theriomorphs and Anthropomorphs. 1. A Theriomorphic Bestiary: The Silence of the Lambs. 2. Human Parasites in Animal Hosts: Women in Love -- Pt. II. The Forest and the Trees. 3. The Forest Primarily Evil: Deliverance. 4. A Peculiar Arborary: Beloved -- Pt. III. For Land's (Not Property's) Sake. 5. The Deed and Its Undoing: The Conservationist. 6. Owning Up to Belonging: Daughters of the Dust -- Pt. IV. Nature, in Theory. 7. An Environmental Impact Report: Of Grammatology. 8. Beyond a Creeping Metonymy: Simians, Cyborgs, and Women.
ISBN
0893012092 (alk. paper)
LCCN
97045524
OCLC
ocm38081444
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries