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Framing the world : explorations in ecocriticism and film / edited by Paula Willoquet-Maricondi.

Title
Framing the world : explorations in ecocriticism and film / edited by Paula Willoquet-Maricondi.
Publication
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.

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Willoquet-Maricondi, Paula, 1960-
Description
xvii, 258 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
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Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Ecocriticism
  • Environmental protection and motion pictures
  • Human ecology in motion pictures
  • Motion pictures > Social aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: from literary to cinematic ecocriticism / Paula Willoquet-Maricondi -- Ecocinema as and for activism. The rhetoric of ascent in An inconvenient truth and Everything's cool / Mark Minster -- Shifting paradigms: from environmentalist films to ecocinema / Paula Willoquet-Maricondi -- Ecocinema, ecojustice, and indigenous worldviews: native and first nations media as cultural recovery / Jennifer A. Machiorlatti -- Bodies that matter: environmental justice in fiction and documentary films. Testimonial structures in environmental justice films / Cory Shaman -- Disposable bodies: biocolonialism in The constant gardener and Dirty pretty things / Rachel Stein -- Engaging the land/positioning the spectator: environmental justice documentaries and Robert Redford's The horse whisperer and A river runs through it / Beth Berila -- Positioning ecosystems in fiction, documentary, and animation. The landscape's lie: class, economy, and ecology in Hotel Rwanda / Harri Kilpi -- Fast, furious, and out of control: the erasure of natural landscapes in car culture films / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann -- The screaming silence: constructions of nature in Werner Herzog's Grizzly man / Elizabeth Henry -- Bambi and Finding Nemo: a sense of wonder in the wonderful world of Disney? / Lynne Dickson Bruckner -- Art cinema eco-auteurs. The rules of the world: Japanese ecocinema and Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Tim Palmer -- Beyond the frame: the spirit of place in Peter Greenaway's The draughtsman's contract / Paula Willoquet-Maricondi.
ISBN
  • 9780813930053 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0813930057 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780813930060 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0813930065 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780813930664 (e-book)
  • 0813930669 (e-book)
LCCN
^^2010002944
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library